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-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- * 
- * 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.apache.commons.codec;
-
-import java.util.Comparator;
-
-/**
- * Strings are comparable, and this comparator allows 
- * you to configure it with an instance of a class
- * which implements StringEncoder.  This comparator
- * is used to sort Strings by an encoding scheme such
- * as Soundex, Metaphone, etc.  This class can come in
- * handy if one need to sort Strings by an encoded
- * form of a name such as Soundex.
- *
- * @author Apache Software Foundation
- * @version $Id: StringEncoderComparator.java,v 1.14 2004/06/21 23:24:17 ggregory Exp $
- */
-public class StringEncoderComparator implements Comparator {
-
-    /**
-     * Internal encoder instance.
-     */
-    private StringEncoder stringEncoder;
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs a new instance.
-     */
-    public StringEncoderComparator() {
-        // no init.
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs a new instance with the given algorithm.
-     * @param stringEncoder the StringEncoder used for comparisons.
-     */
-    public StringEncoderComparator(StringEncoder stringEncoder) {
-        this.stringEncoder = stringEncoder;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Compares two strings based not on the strings 
-     * themselves, but on an encoding of the two 
-     * strings using the StringEncoder this Comparator
-     * was created with.
-     * 
-     * If an {@link EncoderException} is encountered, return <code>0</code>.
-     * 
-     * @param o1 the object to compare
-     * @param o2 the object to compare to
-     * @return the Comparable.compareTo() return code or 0 if an encoding error was caught.
-     * @see Comparable
-     */
-    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
-
-        int compareCode = 0;
-
-        try {
-            Comparable s1 = (Comparable) ((Encoder) this.stringEncoder).encode(o1);
-            Comparable s2 = (Comparable) ((Encoder) this.stringEncoder).encode(o2);
-            compareCode = s1.compareTo(s2);
-        } 
-        catch (EncoderException ee) {
-            compareCode = 0;
-        }
-        return compareCode;
-    }
-
-}