My motivation for the addition was for exactly one reason, writing null safe
comparators.
The facility exists already in collections via
ComparatorUtils.nullLowComparator(Comparator c)
ComparatorUtils.nullHighComparator(Comparator c)
I just failed to find it.
-Antony
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:
Maybe something for the CompareUtils class proposed in LANG-483:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-483
I'd prefer compareNullFirst, compareNullLast instead of the boolean param.
Hen
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Antony Riley wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious but commons
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but commons lang does not seem to
provide a null safe compare method for comparable objects.
My apologies if this functionality exists somewhere in commons lang and I'm
being brain dead with regards to locating it.
It seems like a really obvious addition, code