org.springframework.util
Class AntPathMatcher

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.util.AntPathMatcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

PathMatcher

public class AntPathMatcher
extends Object
implements PathMatcher

PathMatcher implementation for Ant-style path patterns. Examples are provided below.

Part of this mapping code has been kindly borrowed from Apache Ant.

The mapping matches URLs using the following rules:

• ? matches one character
• * matches zero or more characters
• ** matches zero or more 'directories' in a path

Some examples:

• com/t?st.jsp - matches test.jsp but also tast.jsp or txst.jsp
• com/*.jsp - matches all .jsp files in the com directory
• com/**/test.jsp - matches all test.jsp path underneath the com path
• org/springframework/**/*.jsp - matches all .jsp files underneath the org/springframework path
• com/**/servlet/bla.jsp - matches org/springframework/servlet/bla.jsp but also org/springframework/testing/servlet/bla.jsp and com/servlet/bla.jsp

Since:

16.07.2003

Author:

Alef Arendsen, Juergen Hoeller

Constructor Summary

AntPathMatcher()

Method Summary

boolean	isPattern(String str) Return if the given string represents a pattern to be matched via this class: If not, the "match" method does not have to be used because direct equality comparisons are sufficient.
boolean	match(String pattern, String str) Match a string against the given pattern.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AntPathMatcher

public AntPathMatcher()

Method Detail

isPattern

public boolean isPattern(String str)

Description copied from interface: PathMatcher

Return if the given string represents a pattern to be matched via this class: If not, the "match" method does not have to be used because direct equality comparisons are sufficient.

Specified by:

isPattern in interface PathMatcher

Parameters:

str - the string to check

Returns:

whether the given string represents a pattern

See Also:

PathMatcher.match(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

match

public boolean match(String pattern,
                     String str)

Description copied from interface: PathMatcher

Match a string against the given pattern.

Specified by:

match in interface PathMatcher

Parameters:

pattern - the pattern to match against

str - the string to test

Returns:

whether the arguments matched