I am +1 in principle. Just need to figure out a clean implementation that can distinguish between String and other types of properties. Perhaps the initial solution may be a "StringOrdering extends Ordering" that takes the collator and overrides comparison method?
Andrus > On Jan 11, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@karlmenn.is> wrote: > > Hi all. > > It looks like Cayenne's Ordering uses String.compareTo() when sorting String > values in memory using orderList() and orderedList() — and there doesn’t seem > to be any way to change that behaviour. This means sorting of international > strings in memory is somewhat broken. > > Do you think it would be a good idea to add support for: > > 1) Specifying a default java.text.Collator to use for new Ordering instances. > 2) Specifying a java.text.Collator for an instance of Ordering. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > - hugi
