// we should call initializeMatchingRule but they all seem empty at the
// moment.
// ruleInstance.initializeMatchingRule(configEntry);
ByteString normalizedValue1 =
ruleInstance.normalizeValue(ByteString.valueOf(value1));
ByteString normalizedValue2 =
ruleInstance.normalizeValue(ByteString.valueOf(value2));
int res = ruleInstance.compareValues(normalizedValue1, normalizedValue2);
if (result == 0)
{