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/** * Licensed to Jasig under one or more contributor license * agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work * for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * Jasig 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.jasig.portlet.contacts.model.util; import java.util.Comparator; import org.jasig.portlet.contacts.model.Contact; import org.springframework.util.StringUtils; /** * * @author chris */ public class ContactComparator implements Comparator<Contact> { public int compare(Contact t, Contact t1) { int ret = compareStrings(t.getSurname(), t1.getSurname()); if (ret == 0) ret = compareStrings(t.getFirstname(), t1.getFirstname()); if (ret == 0) ret = compareStrings(t.getInitials(), t1.getInitials()); if (ret == 0) ret = compareStrings(t.getId(), t1.getId()); return ret; } private int compareStrings(String s1, String s2) { if (StringUtils.hasLength(s1)) { return s1.compareToIgnoreCase(s2); } else if (StringUtils.hasLength(s2)) { return -1; } return 0; } }