Re: Comparitor

Would it also be possible to move the null processing in compareField to SFieldScalar?  Seems to be a lot of copied code amongst the subtypes.   Eg. SFieldString.compareTo is identical to SFieldInteger.compareTo.

Anthony


>I have also removed the Comparable interface from SRecordInstance.
>You're right that instance need not to have a "natural" order.
>The drawback is that a SRecordComparator based on primary keys is not
>strickly consistent with equals, because two records with null key will
>be the same to SRecordComparator (compare returns 0), while they are NOT
>equal.
>The advantage is that is removes cryptic counter (nullKeysIndex) from
>SDataSet and SRecordInstance. I guess the advantage overweights the
>drawback. (I added a warning in SRecordComparator's javadoc)
>
>Regards,
>Franck

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