au.edu.swin.synergy.plugin.userdb
Class BItemSorter

java.lang.Object
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public class BItemSorter

extends Object

implements Comparator

This is used to compare two BPrivileged items to determine whether the order they should come in. The way in which they are ordered may be set as either by unique id, or by name.

Author:

Tristan Austin

Constructor Summary

BItemSorter()
Default constructor creates a Comparator with the sort ids option selected by default.

BItemSorter(boolean compareIDs)
Creates the Comparator with the compareIDs flag set to the given value.

Method Summary

int	compare(Object item1, Object item2) This will compare the two objects on the assumption.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BItemSorter

public BItemSorter()

Default constructor creates a Comparator with the sort ids option selected by default.

BItemSorter

public BItemSorter(boolean compareIDs)

Creates the Comparator with the compareIDs flag set to the given value.

Parameters:

compareIDs - True to compare by ids, false to compare by usernames

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object item1,
                   Object item2)

This will compare the two objects on the assumption. If item1 is less than item2 it will return a negative number, if it is the same it will return 0 and if it is greater than the second, it will return a positive number.

Specified by:

compare in interface Comparator

Parameters:

item1 - The first privilege to compare

item2 - The second item to compare the first one to