ball.util

Interface PatternMatcherBean

All Known Implementing Classes:

HDHRRecording, LinkManTaglet

public interface PatternMatcherBean

Interface providing default methods for beans classes annotated with PatternRegex and whose methods are annotated with MatcherGroup.

Version:

$Revision: 5285 $

Author:

Allen D. Ball

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default void	initialize(CharSequence sequence) Method to initialize fields and methods annotated with MatcherGroup with the results of parsing the sequence argument.
default Matcher	matcher(CharSequence sequence) Method to get the Matcher for the argument input.
default Pattern	pattern() Method to get the compiled Pattern for this annotated bean.

Method Detail

initialize

default void initialize(CharSequence sequence)

Method to initialize fields and methods annotated with MatcherGroup with the results of parsing the sequence argument.

Parameters:

sequence - The CharSequence to parse.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the CharSequence does not match the PatternRegex.value().

matcher

default Matcher matcher(CharSequence sequence)

Method to get the Matcher for the argument input.

Parameters:

sequence - The CharSequence to parse.

Returns:

The Matcher for the pattern() applied to the CharSequence.

pattern

default Pattern pattern()

Method to get the compiled Pattern for this annotated bean.

Returns:

The Pattern.