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/** * Copyright (C) 2012 JBoss Inc * * Licensed 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.jboss.dashboard.ui.formatters; import org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathContext; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.List; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class ForComparator implements Comparator { private static transient org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory .getLogger(ForComparator.class.getName()); private List sortTokens = new ArrayList(); public ForComparator(String sortProperties) { StringTokenizer stk = new StringTokenizer(sortProperties); while (stk.hasMoreTokens()) { sortTokens.add(stk.nextToken().trim()); } } public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) { for (int i = 0; i < sortTokens.size(); i++) { String property = (String) sortTokens.get(i); boolean descending = property.startsWith("-"); if (property.startsWith("-") || property.startsWith("+")) { property = property.substring(1); } Object prop1 = getObjectProperty(o1, property); Object prop2 = getObjectProperty(o2, property); if (prop1 != null && prop2 != null) { if (prop1 instanceof Comparable && prop2 instanceof Comparable) { int compareResult = ((Comparable) prop1).compareTo(prop2); if (descending) compareResult *= -1; if (compareResult != 0) return compareResult; } else { log.warn("Ignoring sort property " + property + " as it is not comparable."); } } else { log.warn("Ignoring sort property " + property + " as it is null for an item."); } } return 0; } private Object getObjectProperty(Object object, String property) { JXPathContext ctx = JXPathContext.newContext(object); try { return ctx.getValue(property); } catch (Exception e) { if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("Invalid property '" + property + "' ", e); } return null; } }