Enum Constant Detail

• ASCENDING

  public static final SortOrder ASCENDING

  Indicating that values are in increasing order (e.g. "1, 2, 3").

• DESCENDING

  public static final SortOrder DESCENDING

  Indicating that values are in decreasing order (e.g. "3, 2, 1").

Method Detail

• values

  public static SortOrder[] values()

  Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

  for (SortOrder c : SortOrder.values())
      System.out.println(c);
  

  Returns:

  an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

• valueOf

  public static SortOrder valueOf​(String name)

  Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

  Parameters:

  name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

  Returns:

  the enum constant with the specified name

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

  NullPointerException - if the argument is null

• getValue

  public String getValue()

  Returns:

  the short representation of this SortOrder.

• adjustSignum

  public int adjustSignum​(int compareTo)

  Adjusts the Math.signum(double) of a compare to result with this SortOrder to the semantic of Collections.sort(java.util.List, java.util.Comparator). In other words *

  Parameters:

  compareTo - is the result of a regular compare to operation.

  Returns:

  the given value (compareTo) for ASCENDING and the negation ( -compareTo) otherwise (for DESCENDING).

• toString

  public String toString()

  Overrides:

  toString in class Enum<SortOrder>