You are absolutely right. This issue has not been addressed before. I'll happily accept a patch against the current implementation of SearchMethod. But I would feel more comfortable if you'd not introduce a new dependency on commons-collections.
Ingo > I don't know if/how this has been discussed before (from a quick search > doesn't look like it has), but there is an issue in the SWCL which is > bugging us quite a bit and that I need to sort out somehow. > > The current DASL basicsearch spec allow for ordered result via the > pseudo-sql <dav:orderby> clause. The current implementation of > SearchMethod, though, extends XMLResponseBase which puts the results > into an Hashtable, thus losing the order in which resources were > presented by the server. > > The fix is not a big deal but (be it commons-collections based - IMO > preferrable - or tied to JDK 1.4's Linked stuff), but before delving > into it myself and providing a patch, I wanted to make sure that I'm not > seriously overlooking something (I would then happily wear my dumbass > hat) and, in that case, that it would be a welcome addition before the > next release. Comments? > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino > Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com > Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com > (Blogging at: http://www.rabellino.it/blog/) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
