ewe.util
Class CompareArrayElements

java.lang.Object
  ewe.util.CompareArrayElements

All Implemented Interfaces:

CompareInts

public class CompareArrayElements

extends Object

implements CompareInts

This is an implementation of CompareInts which compares Objects in an array. CompareInts objects are used for the Utils.sort() methods.

Constructor Summary

CompareArrayElements(Object[] items, Comparer comparer)
Creates a new CompareArrayElements which uses the specified Comparer to compare objects in the specified array.

Method Summary

int	compare(int one, int two) Compare the two integer values provided by treating them as indexes into the array and then using the Comparer to compare the Objects found at those indexes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, toString

Constructor Detail

CompareArrayElements

public CompareArrayElements(Object[] items,
                            Comparer comparer)

Creates a new CompareArrayElements which uses the specified Comparer to compare objects in the specified array.

Parameters:

items - the items to compare.

comparer - a Comparer to compare the objects in the array. If this is null then it is assumed that the objects implement the Comparable interface.

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(int one,
                   int two)

Compare the two integer values provided by treating them as indexes into the array and then using the Comparer to compare the Objects found at those indexes.

Specified by:

compare in interface CompareInts