If UrlComparator and NumericStringComparator are mainly for presentation logic, my inclination would be to leave them out. IMO once you go into the pretty printing business, you eventually end up with a ton of classes with a limited audience. I'd prefer to stick to Comparator utilities and Comparators that enforce a defensible ordering. I'm curious what other folks' opinions are; right now I seem to be in the minority, although it's only a 2-1 minority. :)
- Morgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Morgan Delagrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [COLLECTIONS] Comparator observations > > > > > Agreed. Should UrlComparator live with Url? > > > > > The other two I guess are more > > > Util stuff? Hard to package them. I solved it by having all my comparators > > > in a compare pacakge. > > > > How about I just re-add UrlComparator and NumericStringComparator to Util > > for now, and we can go from there? > > They're both mainly presentation based. I disagree that they're > application specific, but they are common presentation level components > rather than generic anywhere components. > > UrlComparator doesn't try to fix any UrlStreamHandler issues, but orders > the Urls in a more usable way. > > > > > > NumericStringComparator however is something I've often seen people asking > > > for. It's not a simple implementation (well for the level of people asking > > > for), so I think it has a lot of uses. It's all opinion though, so I > > > dunno. > > > > To me, this one does stand out from the other two as potentially > > appropriate. What would a class like this be used for? It still _sounds_ a > > little application-specific, but maybe not. > > It's presentation specific, though I guess it could be used without. My > most recent usage was in a JTable. The JTable columns were normally > numbers, but could be strings, so I used String as the type of the cell. > Sorting on String is bad as it places 51 before 6. So > NumericStringComparator came in handy. I originally wrote it due to people > asking how to do such a thing on a forum and the suggested answers all > looking horribly heavy. > > However, server-side components can still be presentation specific I > figure. A previous usage was in a jsp page. Maybe the > Commons...comparators need to be bound to a sorting taglib if we've not > got one already :) > > kHen > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
