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/** * Copyright (c) 2003-2017 The Apereo Foundation * <p> * Licensed under the Educational Community 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 * <p> * http://opensource.org/licenses/ecl2 * <p> * 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.sakaiproject.gradebookng.business; import java.text.Collator; import java.util.Comparator; import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.CompareToBuilder; import org.sakaiproject.gradebookng.business.model.GbUser; /** * Comparator class for sorting a list of GbUser by first name. * Secondary sort is on last name to maintain consistent order for those with the same first name. */ public class FirstNameComparatorGbUser implements Comparator<GbUser> { private final Collator collator = Collator.getInstance(); @Override public int compare(final GbUser u1, final GbUser u2) { this.collator.setStrength(Collator.PRIMARY); return new CompareToBuilder().append(u1.getFirstName(), u2.getFirstName(), this.collator) .append(u1.getLastName(), u2.getLastName(), this.collator).toComparison(); } }