Sorting Maven components with Version returns unpredictable order in some cases

SYMPTOM:

Sorting components with the Version column in web UI or REST API does not look like sorting with the alphabetical order. It looks like almost random.

REPRODUCE STEPS:

1. Install NXRM 3.37.0
2. mvn deploy with the following versions:

   "7.10.0" "7.9.0" "SortTest-1.3.1" "SortTest-1.3.0" "SortTest-1.2.0" "SortTest-1.1.0" "SortTest-1.0.6" "SortTest-1.0.5" "SortTest-1.0.4" "SortTest-1.0.3" "SortTest-1.0.2" "SortTest.SR1" "SortTest"
   

1. Login to the web UI and go to Browse => Maven, and search your uploaded components by typing the Group Id and Artifact Id, then click "Version" column to sort the list ascending order:
   
   Users wouldn't be able to figure out what kind of order was used in above "Version" Ascending order.

EXPECTED:

It should sort with alpha-numeric order.

POTENTIAL CAUSE:

NEXUS-28918 introduced new sorting order which looks like populating the "normalized_version" field.
I'm suspecting the "normalized_version" values for "SortTest-x.y.z" may become same so that the list shown in UI becomes unpredictable order:

String[] strs = {"7.10.0","7.9.0","VersionTest-1.3.1","VersionTest-1.3.0","VersionTest-1.2.0",
 "VersionTest-1.1.0","VersionTest-1.0.6","VersionTest-1.0.5","VersionTest-1.0.4","VersionTest-1.0.3",
 "VersionTest-1.0.2","VersionTest.SR1","VersionTest"};

for(int i = 0; i< strs.length; i++){
    System.out.println(strs[i] + " " + versionNormalizer.getNormalizedValue(strs[i]));
}

Running above returns below:

7.10.0 000000007.000000010.000000000.c
7.9.0 000000007.000000009.000000000.c
VersionTest-1.3.1 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.3.0 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.2.0 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.1.0 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.0.6 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.0.5 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.0.4 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.0.3 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest-1.0.2 .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest-000000001
VersionTest.SR1 .000000000.000000000.e.sr-000000001
VersionTest .000000000.000000000.e.versiontest

This would be because the "splitQualifier" expects the version string should be "x.y.z-<Qualifier>" (like below), so that this returns "" (empty string) for the "version".

jshell> versionNormalizer.getNormalizedValue("1.3.1-VersionTest");
$15 ==> "000000001.000000003.000000001.e.versiontest"