wt.util
Class CollationKeyFactory

java.lang.Object
  wt.util.CollationKeyFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractValueViewCollationKeyFactory, AdministrativeDomainNodeCollationKeyFactory, ClassnameCollationKeyFactory, DocumentStructureProcessor.SortCollationKeyFactory, DomainRefCollationKeyFactory, FolderCollationKeyFactory, FolderHierarchy.FolderHierarchyCollationKeyFactory, IdentityCollationKeyFactory, PrincipalCollationKeyFactory, QueryCollationKeyFactory, TeamTemplateCache.TeamTemplateIdentityCollationKeyFactory, TypeIdentifierCollationKeyFactory, WTProductConfigurationCollationKeyFactory

public class CollationKeyFactory

extends Object

A factory for object collation keys.

Supported API: true
Extendable: true

Field Summary

private Collator	collator
private Locale	locale
private static String	versionID

Constructor Summary

CollationKeyFactory()
Construct a collation key factory for the current WTContext's locale.

CollationKeyFactory(Locale locale)
Construct a collation key factory for the given locale.

Method Summary

String	getCollationString(Object obj) Get a collation string for the given object.
CollationKey	getKey(Object obj) Get a collation key for the given object.
Locale	getLocale() Get the locale corresponding to this factory.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

versionID

private static final String versionID

See Also:

Constant Field Values

locale

private Locale locale

collator

private Collator collator

Constructor Detail

CollationKeyFactory

public CollationKeyFactory()

Construct a collation key factory for the current WTContext's locale.

Supported API: true

CollationKeyFactory

public CollationKeyFactory(Locale locale)

Construct a collation key factory for the given locale.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

locale - desired locale

Method Detail

getLocale

public Locale getLocale()

Get the locale corresponding to this factory.

Supported API: true

Returns:

locale specified when factory was contstructed

getKey

public CollationKey getKey(Object obj)

Get a collation key for the given object.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

obj - the object

Returns:

collation key

getCollationString

public String getCollationString(Object obj)

Get a collation string for the given object. It is used as the source string for the collation key. This method returns obj.toString(). Subclasses should override to produce the desired collation string.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

obj - the object

Returns:

string collation key source string