Assume the existence of a Widget class that implements the Comparable interface and thus has a compareTo method that accepts an Object parameter and returns an int.

LANGUAGE: JAVA

CHALLENGE:

Assume the existence of a Widget class that implements the Comparable interface and
thus has a compareTo method that accepts an Object parameter and returns an int.

Write an efficient static method, getWidgetMatch, that has two parameters.
The first parameter is a reference to a Widget object. The second parameter
is a potentially very large array of Widget objects that has been sorted in
ascending order based on the Widget compareTo method. The getWidgetMatch searches
for an element in the array that matches the first parameter on the basis of the equals
method and returns true if found and false otherwise.

SOLUTION:

public static boolean getWidgetMatch(Widget a, Widget[] b){ 
    int lo=0; 
    int hi=b.length-1; 
    int m = 0; 
    int r; 
    while (lo<hi){ 
        m=(hi-lo); 
        r=a.compareTo(b[m]); 
        if (r==0) return true; 
        if (r>0) hi=m; 
        else lo=m; 
		   
        hi--;
    } 
    return a.equals(b[m]); 
}

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