Package org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist

Interface ICompletionProposalSorter

public interface ICompletionProposalSorter

An ICompletionProposalSorter provides support for sorting proposals of a content assistant.

Implementors of this interface have to register this sorter with the content assist whenever needed. See ContentAssistant.setSorter(ICompletionProposalSorter) for more information on how to register a proposal sorter.

Since:

3.8

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	compare(ICompletionProposal p1, ICompletionProposal p2)	The orderings imposed by an implementation need not be consistent with equals.

Method Details

compare

int compare(ICompletionProposal p1,
 ICompletionProposal p2)

The orderings imposed by an implementation need not be consistent with equals.

Parameters:

p1 - the first proposal to be compared

p2 - the second proposal to be compared

Returns:

a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as the first argument is less than, equal to, or greater than the second

See Also:

• Comparator.compare(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object)