org.springframework.core.type.filter
Class AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.core.type.filter.AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

TypeFilter

Direct Known Subclasses:

AnnotationTypeFilter, AssignableTypeFilter

public abstract class AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter
extends Object
implements TypeFilter

Type filter that is aware of traversing over hierarchy.

This filter is useful when matching needs to be made based on potentially the whole class/interface hierarchy. The algorithm employed uses a succeed-fast strategy: if at any time a match is declared, no further processing is carried out.

Since:

2.5

Author:

Ramnivas Laddad, Mark Fisher

Constructor Summary

protected

AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter(boolean considerInherited, boolean considerInterfaces)

Method Summary

boolean	match(MetadataReader metadataReader, MetadataReaderFactory metadataReaderFactory) Determine whether this filter matches for the class described by the given metadata.
protected boolean	matchClassName(String className) Override this to match on type name.
protected Boolean	matchInterface(String interfaceNames) Override this to match on interface type name.
protected boolean	matchSelf(MetadataReader metadataReader) Override this to match self characteristics alone.
protected Boolean	matchSuperClass(String superClassName) Override this to match on super type name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter

protected AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter(boolean considerInherited,
                                                boolean considerInterfaces)

Method Detail

match

public boolean match(MetadataReader metadataReader,
                     MetadataReaderFactory metadataReaderFactory)
              throws IOException

Description copied from interface: TypeFilter

Determine whether this filter matches for the class described by the given metadata.

Specified by:

match in interface TypeFilter

Parameters:

metadataReader - the metadata reader for the target class

metadataReaderFactory - a factory for obtaining metadata readers for other classes (such as superclasses and interfaces)

Returns:

whether this filter matches

Throws:

IOException - in case of I/O failure when reading metadata

matchSelf

protected boolean matchSelf(MetadataReader metadataReader)

Override this to match self characteristics alone. Typically, the implementation will use a visitor to extract information to perform matching.

matchClassName

protected boolean matchClassName(String className)

Override this to match on type name.

matchSuperClass

protected Boolean matchSuperClass(String superClassName)

Override this to match on super type name.

matchInterface

protected Boolean matchInterface(String interfaceNames)

Override this to match on interface type name.