Constructor Detail

• LowercaseFirstCollator

  public LowercaseFirstCollator​(StringCollator base)

  Create a LowercaseFirstCollator

  Parameters:

  base - the base collator, which determines how characters are sorted irrespective of case

Method Detail

• compareStrings

  public int compareStrings​(java.lang.String a,
                            java.lang.String b)

  Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

  Specified by:

  compareStrings in interface StringCollator

  Parameters:

  a - the first string

  b - the second string

  Returns:

  <0 if a0 if a>b

  Throws:

  java.lang.ClassCastException - if the objects are of the wrong type for this Comparer

• getCollationKey

  public java.lang.Object getCollationKey​(java.lang.String s)

  Get a collation key for two Strings. The essential property of collation keys is that if two values are equal under the collation, then the collation keys are compare correctly under the equals() method.

  Specified by:

  getCollationKey in interface StringCollator

  Parameters:

  s - the string whose collation key is required

  Returns:

  the collation key