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+// Mozilla has modified this file - see http://hg.mozilla.org/ for details.
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.mozilla.apache.commons.codec;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+/**
+ * Compares Strings using a {@link StringEncoder}. This comparator is used to sort Strings by an encoding scheme such as
+ * Soundex, Metaphone, etc. This class can come in handy if one need to sort Strings by an encoded form of a name such
+ * as Soundex.
+ *
+ * @author Apache Software Foundation
+ * @version $Id: StringEncoderComparator.java 1080701 2011-03-11 17:52:27Z ggregory $
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+public class StringEncoderComparator implements Comparator {
+
+ /**
+ * Internal encoder instance.
+ */
+ private final StringEncoder stringEncoder;
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a new instance.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Creating an instance without a {@link StringEncoder} leads to a {@link NullPointerException}. Will be
+ * removed in 2.0.
+ */
+ public StringEncoderComparator() {
+ this.stringEncoder = null; // Trying to use this will cause things to break
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a new instance with the given algorithm.
+ *
+ * @param stringEncoder
+ * the StringEncoder used for comparisons.
+ */
+ public StringEncoderComparator(StringEncoder stringEncoder) {
+ this.stringEncoder = stringEncoder;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Compares two strings based not on the strings themselves, but on an encoding of the two strings using the
+ * StringEncoder this Comparator was created with.
+ *
+ * If an {@link EncoderException} is encountered, return <code>0</code>.
+ *
+ * @param o1
+ * the object to compare
+ * @param o2
+ * the object to compare to
+ * @return the Comparable.compareTo() return code or 0 if an encoding error was caught.
+ * @see Comparable
+ */
+ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+ public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
+
+ int compareCode = 0;
+
+ try {
+ Comparable s1 = (Comparable) this.stringEncoder.encode(o1);
+ Comparable s2 = (Comparable) this.stringEncoder.encode(o2);
+ compareCode = s1.compareTo(s2);
+ } catch (EncoderException ee) {
+ compareCode = 0;
+ }
+ return compareCode;
+ }
+
+}