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  * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

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  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 package org.kuali.rice.kim.bo.ui;

 import java.util.Comparator;

 import org.kuali.rice.kim.bo.types.impl.KimAttributeDataImpl;

 /**

  * This is a description of what this class does - shyu don't forget to fill this in. 

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public class KimAttributeDataComparator implements Comparator<KimAttributeDataImpl> {

     public int compare(KimAttributeDataImpl attrData1, KimAttributeDataImpl attrData2) {

        // int retval = 0;

         return getSortCode(attrData1).compareTo(getSortCode(attrData2));

     }

     private String getSortCode(KimAttributeDataImpl attrData) {

             String sortCode = attrData.getKimType().getAttributeDefinition( attrData.getKimAttributeId() ).getSortCode();

             if ( sortCode == null ) {

                     sortCode = "";

             }

                 return sortCode;

     }

 }