com.jidesoft.utils

Class DefaultWildcardSupport

java.lang.Object

com.jidesoft.utils.AbstractWildcardSupport

com.jidesoft.utils.DefaultWildcardSupport

All Implemented Interfaces:

WildcardSupport, java.io.Serializable

public class DefaultWildcardSupport
extends AbstractWildcardSupport

Default implementation of WildcardSupport. It uses the following three chars as the wildcards.

• '?' The question mark indicates there is exact one of missing element. For example, colo?r matches "colour" but not "color" or "colouur".
• '*' The asterisk indicates there are zero or more of the missing elements. For example, ab*c matches "abc", "abbc", "abdbc", and so on.
• '+' The plus sign indicates there are at least one of the missing elements. For example, ab+c matches "abbc", "abdbc", but not "abc".

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DefaultWildcardSupport()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
char	getOneOrMoreQuantifier() Gets the quantifier that indicates there is one or more of the preceding element.
char	getZeroOrMoreQuantifier() Gets the quantifier that indicates there is zero or more of the preceding element.
char	getZeroOrOneQuantifier() Gets the quantifier that indicates there is zero or one of the preceding element.

Methods inherited from class com.jidesoft.utils.AbstractWildcardSupport

convert

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DefaultWildcardSupport

public DefaultWildcardSupport()

Method Detail

getZeroOrOneQuantifier

public char getZeroOrOneQuantifier()

Description copied from interface: WildcardSupport

Gets the quantifier that indicates there is zero or one of the preceding element. Usually '?', the question mark is used for this quantifier. For example, colou?r matches both "color" and "colour".

Returns:

the quantifier that indicates there is zero or one of the preceding element.

getZeroOrMoreQuantifier

public char getZeroOrMoreQuantifier()

Description copied from interface: WildcardSupport

Gets the quantifier that indicates there is zero or more of the preceding element. Usually '*', the asterisk is used for this quantifier. For example, ab*c matches "ac", "abc", "abbc", "abbbc", and so on.

Returns:

the quantifier that indicates there is zero or more of the preceding element.

getOneOrMoreQuantifier

public char getOneOrMoreQuantifier()

Description copied from interface: WildcardSupport

Gets the quantifier that indicates there is one or more of the preceding element. Usually '+', the plus sign is used for this quantifier. For example, ab+c matches "abc", "abbc", "abbbc", and so on, but not "ac".

Returns:

the quantifier that indicates there is one or more of the preceding element.