nkinder%redhat.com 7aa6718020 Resolves: 380215
Summary:  Fixed javadoc comments that were causing warnings at build time.


git-svn-id: svn://10.0.0.236/trunk@226263 18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43
2007-05-10 17:35:41 +00:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
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package netscape.ldap;
/**
* The <CODE>LDAPEntryComparator</CODE> interface represents the
* algorithm used to sort the search results. This interface specifies
* one method, <CODE>isGreater</CODE>, which compares two entries and
* determines the order in which the two entries should be sorted.
* <P>
*
* The <CODE>netscape.ldap</CODE> package includes a class that
* implements this interface. The <CODE>LDAPCompareAttrNames</CODE>
* class represents a comparator that sorts the two entries alphabetically,
* based on the value of one or more attributes.
* <P>
*
* When calling the <CODE>sort</CODE> method of the
* <CODE>LDAPSearchResults</CODE> class, you need to specify
* a class that implements the <CODE>LDAPEntryComparator</CODE>
* interface.
* <P>
*
* @version 1.0
* @see netscape.ldap.LDAPCompareAttrNames
* @see netscape.ldap.LDAPSearchResults#sort
*/
public interface LDAPEntryComparator {
/**
* Specifies the algorithm used to
* compare entries when sorting search results.
* <P>
*
* <CODE>isGreater</CODE> returns <CODE>true</CODE>
* if the entry specified in the first argument should
* be sorted before the entry specified in the second
* argument.
* <P>
*
* @see netscape.ldap.LDAPCompareAttrNames
* @see netscape.ldap.LDAPSearchResults#sort
*/
public boolean isGreater (LDAPEntry greater, LDAPEntry less);
}