Task
Your task is to implement the missing methods in the class Version (also note that there may be some methods needed that have no definition now).
This exercise is an advanced version of the exercise Version.
Specification
The class Version represents a version. A version has the format X{.Y}[-qualifier]. The part .Y can be repeated multiple times (for this exercise at least 4 times).
Each part (X, Y) is a natural number. The qualifier consists of alphanumeric characters.
The first part (X) is mandatory.
The second (and further) part(s) (Y) can be omitted if it is 0 and all further parts are also omitted.
The toString() method must return a String that can be parsed again and represents the same version as parsed (the equals() method must return true and the compareTo() method must return 0).
Two versions are considered equal if all parts are the equal (missing parts are considered as 0).
When comparing two versions the parts are compared in order. If a part differs then an according result must be returned by compareTo().
If the version has a qualifier then the qualifiers are compared as alphanumeric characters except the special string literal SNAPSHOT which is always less than every other qualifier. If a version without a qualifier is compared to a version with qualifier then the version without qualifier is treated as the greater version. All qualifiers (except SNAPSHOT) must be case insensitive.
If the method parse cannot handle the supplied String the an IllegalArgumentException must be thrown.
Examples
Some examples of comparisons of two versions:
- 1 == 1.0
- 1 == 1.0.0
- 1.0.0 < 1.0.1
- 1.0.1 < 1.0.1.1
- 1.0.0 < 1.1
- 1.0 < 2.0
- 1.2 < 2.0
- 1.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0-alpha
- 1.0-ALPHA == 1.0.0-alpha
- 1.0-alpha < 1.0-beta
- 1.0-beta < 1.0-rc
- 1.0-rc < 1.0-snapshot
- 1.0-rc < 1.0
- 1.1 < 1.2-SNAPSHOT
Support
To support you with implementing the methods there are unit tests in VersionTest. The unit tests are disabled at the start. To use them you have to enable them.
Development Requirements
To perform this exercise you need a JDK 8 and Maven 3.3.x.