com.opensymphony.xwork2.util
Class NamedVariablePatternMatcher

java.lang.Object
  com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.NamedVariablePatternMatcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

PatternMatcher<NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern>

public class NamedVariablePatternMatcher
extends Object
implements PatternMatcher<NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern>

An implementation of a pattern matcher that uses simple named wildcards. The named wildcards are defined using the {VARIABLE_NAME} syntax and will match any characters that aren't '/'. Internally, the pattern is converted into a regular expression where the named wildcard will be translated into ([^/]+) so that at least one character must match in order for the wildcard to be matched successfully. Matched values will be available in the variable map, indexed by the name they were given in the pattern.

For example, the following patterns will be processed as so:

Pattern	Example	Variable Map Contents
/animals/{animal}	/animals/dog	{animal -> dog}
/animals/{animal}/tag/No{id}	/animals/dog/tag/No23	{animal -> dog, id -> 23}
/{language}	/en	{language -> en}

Excaping hasn't been implemented since the intended use of these patterns will be in matching URLs.

Nested Class Summary

static class

NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern Stores the compiled pattern and the variable names matches will correspond to.

Constructor Summary

NamedVariablePatternMatcher()

Method Summary

NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern	compilePattern(String data) Compiles the pattern.
boolean	isLiteral(String pattern) Determines if the pattern is a simple literal string or contains wildcards that will need to be processed
boolean	match(Map<String,String> map, String data, NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern expr) Tries to process the data against the compiled expression.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NamedVariablePatternMatcher

public NamedVariablePatternMatcher()

Method Detail

isLiteral

public boolean isLiteral(String pattern)

Description copied from interface: PatternMatcher

Determines if the pattern is a simple literal string or contains wildcards that will need to be processed

Specified by:

isLiteral in interface PatternMatcher<NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern>

Parameters:

pattern - The string pattern

Returns:

True if the pattern doesn't contain processing elements, false otherwise

compilePattern

public NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern compilePattern(String data)

Compiles the pattern.

Specified by:

compilePattern in interface PatternMatcher<NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern>

Parameters:

data - The pattern, must not be null or empty

Returns:

The compiled pattern, null if the pattern was null or empty

match

public boolean match(Map<String,String> map,
                     String data,
                     NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern expr)

Tries to process the data against the compiled expression. If successful, the map will contain the matched data, using the specified variable names in the original pattern.

Specified by:

match in interface PatternMatcher<NamedVariablePatternMatcher.CompiledPattern>

Parameters:

map - The map of variables

data - The data to match

expr - The compiled pattern

Returns:

True if matched, false if not matched, the data was null, or the data was an empty string