// StringOrder.java
// -----------------------------
// (C) 2008 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
// first published 10.01.2008 on http://yacy.net
//
// This is a part of YaCy, a peer-to-peer based web search engine
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package net.yacy.kelondro.order;

import java.util.Comparator;

import net.yacy.cora.document.UTF8;

public class StringOrder implements Comparator<String> {

    public ByteOrder baseOrder;
    public StringOrder(final ByteOrder base) {
        this.baseOrder = base;
    }
    
    public StringOrder(final Order<byte[]> base) {
        this.baseOrder = (ByteOrder) base;
    }
    
    public final int compare(final String s1, final String s2) {
        return baseOrder.compare(UTF8.getBytes(s1), UTF8.getBytes(s2));
    }
}