pjs/grendel/storage/mdb/nsIMdbCompare.java

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/* -*- Mode: java; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
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* The Original Code is the Grendel mail/news client.
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* Created: Mauro Botelho <mabotelh@email.com>, 20 Mar 1999.
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package grendel.storage.mdb;
/*| nsIMdbCompare: a caller-supplied yarn comparison interface. When two yarns
**| are compared to each other with Order(), this method should return a signed
**| long integer denoting relation R between the 1st and 2nd yarn instances
**| such that (First R Second), where negative is less than, zero is equal to,
**| and positive is greater than. Note that both yarns are readonly, and the
**| Order() method should make no attempt to modify the yarn content.
|*/
interface nsIMdbCompare { // caller-supplied yarn comparison
// { ===== begin nsIMdbCompare methods =====
public int Order(nsIMdbEnv ev, // compare first to second yarn
String inFirst, // first yarn in comparison
String inSecond); // second yarn in comparison
// negative="<", zero="=", positive=">"
// } ===== end nsIMdbCompare methods =====
};