“Comparison method violates its general contract!”

Question

Can someone explain me in simple terms, why does this code throw an exception, \"Comparison method violates its general contract!\", and how do I fix it?

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Answer 1

In our case were were getting this error because we had accidentally flipped the order of comparison of s1 and s2. So watch out for that. It was obviously way more complicated than the following but this is an illustration:

s1 == s2   
    return 0;
s2 > s1 
    return 1;
s1 < s2 
    return -1;