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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.team.internal.core;

/**
 * The SortOperation takes a collection of objects and returns
 * a sorted collection of these objects.  Concrete instances of this
 * class provide the criteria for the sorting of the objects based on
 * the type of the objects.
 */
public abstract class Sorter {
	/**
	 * Returns true is elementTwo is 'greater than' elementOne
	 * This is the 'ordering' method of the sort operation.
	 * Each subclass overides this method with the particular
	 * implementation of the 'greater than' concept for the 
	 * objects being sorted.
	 */
	public abstract boolean compare(Object elementOne, Object elementTwo);
	/**
	 * Sort the objects in sorted collection and return that collection.
	 */
	private Object[] quickSort(Object[] sortedCollection, int left, int right) {
		int originalLeft = left;
		int originalRight = right;
		Object mid = sortedCollection[ (left + right) / 2];
		do {
			while (compare(sortedCollection[left], mid))
				left++;
			while (compare(mid, sortedCollection[right]))
				right--;
			if (left <= right) {
				Object tmp = sortedCollection[left];
				sortedCollection[left] = sortedCollection[right];
				sortedCollection[right] = tmp;
				left++;
				right--;
			}
		} while (left <= right);
		if (originalLeft < right)
			sortedCollection = quickSort(sortedCollection, originalLeft, right);
		if (left < originalRight)
			sortedCollection = quickSort(sortedCollection, left, originalRight);
		return sortedCollection;
	}
	/**
	 * Return a new sorted collection from this unsorted collection.
	 * Sort using quick sort.
	 */
	public Object[] sort(Object[] unSortedCollection) {
		int size = unSortedCollection.length;
		Object[] sortedCollection = new Object[size];
		//copy the array so can return a new sorted collection	
		System.arraycopy(unSortedCollection, 0, sortedCollection, 0, size);
		if (size > 1)
			quickSort(sortedCollection, 0, size - 1);
		return sortedCollection;
	}
}

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