MergeComparator.java

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package uk.ac.cam.eng.extraction.hadoop.merge;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator;

import uk.ac.cam.eng.extraction.Rule;

public class MergeComparator extends WritableComparator {

        private final DataOutputBuffer buffera = new DataOutputBuffer();
        private final DataOutputBuffer bufferb = new DataOutputBuffer();

        public MergeComparator() {
                super(Rule.class);
        }

        @Override
        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
        public int compare(WritableComparable a, WritableComparable b) {
                try {
                        buffera.reset();
                        a.write(buffera);
                        bufferb.reset();
                        b.write(bufferb);
                        return compareBytes(buffera.getData(), 0, buffera.getLength(),
                                        bufferb.getData(), 0, bufferb.getLength());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
        }

        @Override
        public int compare(byte[] b1, int s1, int l1, byte[] b2, int s2, int l2) {
                return compareBytes(b1, s1, l1, b2, s2, l2);
        }

}