I have two qualifiers that contain latitude and longitude longs. I wish to write a filter comparator that will look at these two qualifiers and determine if they exist within a supplied bounding box. - This will compare four longs passed in as min/max values against what is found in the qualifiers.
Looking at the built-in comparators like RegexStringComparator and BinaryComparator, it looks like I must extend ByteArrayComparable and then create a ComparatorProtos for my custom comparator. I understand extending ByteArrayComparable but a custom ComparatorProtos to facilitate ByteArrayComparable.parseFrom is a bit much to just look at a couple of longs. Are the above steps the right approach to for this kind of work or am I missing something? Thanks, -Kris
