Package org.sonar.api.utils

Class WildcardPattern

java.lang.Object

org.sonar.api.utils.WildcardPattern

@ThreadSafe
public class WildcardPattern
extends java.lang.Object

Implementation of Ant-style matching patterns. Contrary to other implementations (like AntPathMatcher from Spring Framework) it is based on Java Regular Expressions. To increase performance it holds an internal cache of all processed patterns.

Following rules are applied:

• ? matches single character
• * matches zero or more characters
• ** matches zero or more 'directories'

Some examples of patterns:

• org/T?st.java - matches org/Test.java and also org/Tost.java
• org/*.java - matches all .java files in the org directory, e.g. org/Foo.java or org/Bar.java
• org/** - matches all files underneath the org directory, e.g. org/Foo.java or org/foo/bar.jsp
• org/**/Test.java - matches all Test.java files underneath the org directory, e.g. org/Test.java or org/foo/Test.java or org/foo/bar/Test.java
• org/**/*.java - matches all .java files underneath the org directory, e.g. org/Foo.java or org/foo/Bar.java or org/foo/bar/Baz.java

Another implementation, which is also based on Java Regular Expressions, can be found in FileUtil from IntelliJ OpenAPI.

Since:

1.10

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	WildcardPattern(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String directorySeparator)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static WildcardPattern	create(java.lang.String pattern)	Creates pattern with "/" as a directory separator.
static WildcardPattern[]	create(java.lang.String[] patterns)	Creates array of patterns with "/" as a directory separator.
static WildcardPattern	create(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String directorySeparator)	Creates pattern with specified separator for directories.
boolean	match(java.lang.String value)	Returns true if specified value matches this pattern.
static boolean	match(WildcardPattern[] patterns, java.lang.String value)	Returns true if specified value matches one of specified patterns.
java.lang.String	toString()	Returns string representation of this pattern.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WildcardPattern

protected WildcardPattern(java.lang.String pattern,
                          java.lang.String directorySeparator)

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns string representation of this pattern.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Since:

2.5

match

public boolean match(java.lang.String value)

Returns true if specified value matches this pattern.

match

public static boolean match(WildcardPattern[] patterns,
                            java.lang.String value)

Returns true if specified value matches one of specified patterns.

Since:

2.4

create

public static WildcardPattern create(java.lang.String pattern)

Creates pattern with "/" as a directory separator.

See Also:

create(String, String)

create

public static WildcardPattern[] create(@Nullable
                                       java.lang.String[] patterns)

Creates array of patterns with "/" as a directory separator.

See Also:

create(String, String)

create

public static WildcardPattern create(java.lang.String pattern,
                                     java.lang.String directorySeparator)

Creates pattern with specified separator for directories.

This is used to match Java-classes, i.e. org.foo.Bar against org/**. However usage of character other than "/" as a directory separator is misleading and should be avoided, so method create(String) is preferred over this one.

Also note that no matter whether forward or backward slashes were used in the antPattern the returned pattern will use directorySeparator. Thus to match Windows-style path "dir\file.ext" against pattern "dir/file.ext" normalization should be performed.