Lior Vernia has submitted this change and it was merged. Change subject: core: Improve LexoNumericComparator case-insensitive behavior ...................................................................... core: Improve LexoNumericComparator case-insensitive behavior It is generally bad to return 0 when comparing strings that aren't identical - I can think of at least two good reasons. Firstly, due to dysfunctional TreeSet behavior in Java (it uses a comparator to tell whether two items are identical - this actually breaks the contract of Set, which is guaranteed to only refer to items as identical if they return the same hashCode() or true for equals()), it is best to distinguish between non-identical strings even if they're equal when compared case-insensitively. Secondly, when collections of items are sorted, it's best to have a deterministic order between them - otherwise "equal" rows may switch places (e.g. upon refresh). Change-Id: I097cdb5f4f784577586160f10c0ef151fc9c9b4f Bug-Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167641 Signed-off-by: Lior Vernia <lvernia(a)redhat.com&gt; --- M backend/manager/modules/common/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/common/businessentities/comparators/LexoNumericComparator.java M backend/manager/modules/common/src/test/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/common/businessentities/comparators/LexoNumericComparatorTest.java 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Approvals: Alona Kaplan: Looks good to me, approved Lior Vernia: Verified -- To view, visit http://gerrit.ovirt.org/35572 To unsubscribe, visit http://gerrit.ovirt.org/settings Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I097cdb5f4f784577586160f10c0ef151fc9c9b4f Gerrit-PatchSet: 2 Gerrit-Project: ovirt-engine Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Lior Vernia <lvernia(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Alona Kaplan <alkaplan(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Lior Vernia <lvernia(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Moti Asayag <masayag(a)redhat.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: automation(a)ovirt.org Gerrit-Reviewer: oVirt Jenkins CI Server