server/schema/OctetStringOrderingMatchingRule.java

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package org.opends.server.schema;


import static org.opends.server.schema.SchemaConstants.*;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;

import org.opends.server.api.AbstractMatchingRule;
import org.opends.server.api.OrderingMatchingRule;
import org.opends.server.types.ByteSequence;
import org.opends.server.types.ByteString;
import org.opends.server.types.DirectoryException;
import org.opends.server.util.StaticUtils;


/**
 * This class defines the octetStringOrderingMatch matching rule defined in
 * X.520.  This will be the default ordering matching rule for the binary and
 * octet string syntaxes.
 */
public class OctetStringOrderingMatchingRule
       extends AbstractMatchingRule
       implements OrderingMatchingRule
{
  /**
   * The serial version identifier required to satisfy the compiler because this
   * class implements the <CODE>java.io.Serializable</CODE> interface.  This
   * value was generated using the <CODE>serialver</CODE> command-line utility
   * included with the Java SDK.
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 3832343819704649155L;


  /**
   * Creates a new instance of this octetStringOrderingMatch matching rule.
   */
  public OctetStringOrderingMatchingRule()
  {
    super();
  }


  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  @Override
  public Collection<String> getAllNames()
  {
    return Collections.singleton(getName());
  }


  /**
   * Retrieves the common name for this matching rule.
   *
   * @return  The common name for this matching rule, or <CODE>null</CODE> if
   * it does not have a name.
   */
  @Override
  public String getName()
  {
    return OMR_OCTET_STRING_NAME;
  }


  /**
   * Retrieves the OID for this matching rule.
   *
   * @return  The OID for this matching rule.
   */
  @Override
  public String getOID()
  {
    return OMR_OCTET_STRING_OID;
  }


  /**
   * Retrieves the description for this matching rule.
   *
   * @return  The description for this matching rule, or <CODE>null</CODE> if
   *          there is none.
   */
  @Override
  public String getDescription()
  {
    // There is no standard description for this matching rule.
    return null;
  }


  /**
   * Retrieves the OID of the syntax with which this matching rule is
   * associated.
   *
   * @return  The OID of the syntax with which this matching rule is associated.
   */
  @Override
  public String getSyntaxOID()
  {
    return SYNTAX_OCTET_STRING_OID;
  }


  /**
   * Retrieves the normalized form of the provided value, which is best suited
   * for efficiently performing matching operations on that value.
   *
   * @param  value  The value to be normalized.
   *
   * @return  The normalized version of the provided value.
   *
   * @throws  DirectoryException  If the provided value is invalid according to
   *                              the associated attribute syntax.
   */
  @Override
  public ByteString normalizeValue(ByteSequence value)
         throws DirectoryException
  {
    return value.toByteString();
  }


  /**
   * Compares the first value to the second and returns a value that indicates
   * their relative order.
   *
   * @param  value1  The normalized form of the first value to compare.
   * @param  value2  The normalized form of the second value to compare.
   *
   * @return  A negative integer if <CODE>value1</CODE> should come before
   *          <CODE>value2</CODE> in ascending order, a positive integer if
   *          <CODE>value1</CODE> should come after <CODE>value2</CODE> in
   *          ascending order, or zero if there is no difference between the
   *          values with regard to ordering.
   */
  public int compareValues(ByteSequence value1, ByteSequence value2)
  {
    return value1.compareTo(value2);
  }


  /**
   * Compares the contents of the provided byte arrays to determine their
   * relative order.
   *
   * @param  b1  The first byte array to use in the comparison.
   * @param  b2  The second byte array to use in the comparison.
   *
   * @return  A negative integer if <CODE>b1</CODE> should come before
   *          <CODE>b2</CODE> in ascending order, a positive integer if
   *          <CODE>b1</CODE> should come after <CODE>b2</CODE> in ascending
   *          order, or zero if there is no difference between the values with
   *          regard to ordering.
   */
  public int compare(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
  {
    return StaticUtils.compare(b1, b2);
}
}