Class 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 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.