Java tutorial
/******************************************************************************* * Copyright SemanticBits, Northwestern University and Akaza Research * * Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License. * See http://ncip.github.com/caaers/LICENSE.txt for details. ******************************************************************************/ package gov.nih.nci.cabig.caaers.web.table; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanComparator; import org.apache.commons.collections.comparators.ReverseComparator; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; import org.extremecomponents.table.callback.NullSafeBeanComparator; import org.extremecomponents.table.callback.SortRowsCallback; import org.extremecomponents.table.core.TableConstants; import org.extremecomponents.table.core.TableModel; import org.extremecomponents.table.limit.Sort; /** * @author */ public class SortRowsCallbackImpl implements SortRowsCallback { private static Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(SortRowsCallbackImpl.class); public Collection sortRows(TableModel model, Collection rows) throws Exception { boolean sorted = model.getLimit().isSorted(); if (!sorted) { return rows; } Sort sort = model.getLimit().getSort(); String property = sort.getProperty(); String sortOrder = sort.getSortOrder(); if (StringUtils.contains(property, ".")) { try { if (sortOrder.equals(TableConstants.SORT_ASC)) { Collections.sort((List) rows, new NullSafeBeanComparator(property, new NullStringComparator())); } else if (sortOrder.equals(TableConstants.SORT_DESC)) { NullSafeBeanComparator reversedNaturalOrderBeanComparator = new NullSafeBeanComparator(property, new ReverseComparator(new NullStringComparator())); Collections.sort((List) rows, reversedNaturalOrderBeanComparator); } } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) { String msg = "The column property [" + property + "] is nested and requires BeanUtils 1.7 or greater for proper sorting."; logger.error(msg); throw new NoClassDefFoundError(msg); //just rethrow so it is not hidden } } else { if (sortOrder.equals(TableConstants.SORT_ASC)) { BeanComparator comparator = new BeanComparator(property, new NullStringComparator()); Collections.sort((List) rows, comparator); } else if (sortOrder.equals(TableConstants.SORT_DESC)) { BeanComparator reversedNaturalOrderBeanComparator = new BeanComparator(property, new ReverseComparator(new NullStringComparator())); Collections.sort((List) rows, reversedNaturalOrderBeanComparator); } } return rows; } }