// kelondroNaturalOrder.java
// -----------------------
// part of The Kelondro Database
// (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@anomic.de
// first published on http://www.anomic.de
// Frankfurt, Germany, 2005
// created 29.12.2005
//
// $LastChangedDate: 2005-09-22 22:01:26 +0200 (Thu, 22 Sep 2005) $
// $LastChangedRevision: 774 $
// $LastChangedBy: orbiter $
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package de.anomic.kelondro;

import java.util.Comparator;

public class kelondroNaturalOrder extends kelondroAbstractOrder implements kelondroOrder, Comparator {
    
    boolean asc;
    
    public static final Comparator naturalOrder = new kelondroNaturalOrder(true);
    
    public kelondroNaturalOrder(boolean ascending) {
        this.asc = ascending;
    }
    
    public long cardinal(byte[] key) {
        // returns a cardinal number in the range of 0 .. Long.MAX_VALUE
        long c = 0;
        int p = 0;
        while ((p < 8) && (p < key.length)) c = (c << 8) | ((long) key[p++] & 0xFF);
        while (p++ < 8) c = (c << 8);
        c = c >>> 1;
        return c;
    }

    // Compares its two arguments for order.
    // Returns -1, 0, or 1 as the first argument
    // is less than, equal to, or greater than the second.
    // two arrays are also equal if one array is a subset of the other's array
    // with filled-up char(0)-values
    public int compare(byte[] a, byte[] b) {
        return (asc) ? compares(a, b) : compares(b, a);
    }

    public static final int compares(byte[] a, byte[] b) {
        int i = 0;
        final int al = a.length;
        final int bl = b.length;
        final int len = (al > bl) ? bl : al;
        while (i < len) {
            if (a[i] > b[i])
                return 1;
            if (a[i] < b[i])
                return -1;
            // else the bytes are equal and it may go on yet undecided
            i++;
        }
        // check if we have a zero-terminated equality
        if ((i == al) && (i < bl) && (b[i] == 0)) return 0;
        if ((i == bl) && (i < al) && (a[i] == 0)) return 0;
        // no, decide by length
        if (al > bl) return 1;
        if (al < bl) return -1;
        // no, they are equal
        return 0;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        byte[] t = new byte[12];
        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) t[i] = (byte) 255;
        t[0] = (byte) 127;
        kelondroOrder o = new kelondroNaturalOrder(true);
        System.out.println(o.partition(t, 16));
    }
    
}