How to write a compareTo() method for Text version of arrywritable

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I am writing a mapreduce code and my intermediate mapper output key is a Text version of ArrayWritable and i have created a class TextArrayWritable and extended ArrayWritable.Below is my code

public class TextArrayWritable extends ArrayWritable {

//private Writable[] values;
public TextArrayWritable()
{
    super(Text.class);

}
public TextArrayWritable(String[] strings)
{
    super(Text.class);
    Text[] texts=new Text[strings.length];
    for(int i=0;i<strings.length;i++)
    {
        texts[i]=new Text(strings[i]);
    }
    set(texts);
}
public String[] returnarray(Text[] mytext)
{
    //super(Text.class);
    String[] mystr=new String[mytext.length];
    //ArrayList<String> mylist=new ArrayList<String>();

    for(int i=0;i<mystr.length;i++)
    {
        mystr[i]=mystr[i].toString();
    }
    return mystr;
}
 public Text[] toArray() {
     return (Text[]) super.toArray();
     }  

}

How to write a compareTo() method for the above class i understand it needs to implemented by implementing WritableComparable interface but not sure how to write a method.

asked 52 secs ago

User1123

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How to write a compareTo() method for Text version of arrywritable