Package org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher

Class RegexRequestMatcher

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    RequestMatcher
    public final class RegexRequestMatcher
extends java.lang.Object
implements RequestMatcher
    Uses a regular expression to decide whether a supplied the URL of a supplied HttpServletRequest. Can also be configured to match a specific HTTP method. The match is performed against the servletPath + pathInfo + queryString of the request and is case-sensitive by default. Case-insensitive matching can be used by using the constructor which takes the caseInsensitive argument.
    Since:
    3.1

    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      RegexRequestMatcher​(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String httpMethod)
      Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.
      RegexRequestMatcher​(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String httpMethod, boolean caseInsensitive)
      As above, but allows setting of whether case-insensitive matching should be used.

    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      boolean matches​(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
      Performs the match of the request URL (servletPath + pathInfo + queryString ) against the compiled pattern.
      java.lang.String toString()  

      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

    • Constructor Detail

      • RegexRequestMatcher

        public RegexRequestMatcher​(java.lang.String pattern,
                           java.lang.String httpMethod)
        Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.
        Parameters:
        pattern - the regular expression to compile into a pattern.
        httpMethod - the HTTP method to match. May be null to match all methods.

      • RegexRequestMatcher

        public RegexRequestMatcher​(java.lang.String pattern,
                           java.lang.String httpMethod,
                           boolean caseInsensitive)
        As above, but allows setting of whether case-insensitive matching should be used.
        Parameters:
        pattern - the regular expression to compile into a pattern.
        httpMethod - the HTTP method to match. May be null to match all methods.
        caseInsensitive - if true, the pattern will be compiled with the Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE flag set.

    • Method Detail

      • matches

        public boolean matches​(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
        Performs the match of the request URL (servletPath + pathInfo + queryString ) against the compiled pattern. If the query string is present, a question mark will be prepended.
        Specified by:
        matches in interface RequestMatcher
        Parameters:
        request - the request to match
        Returns:
        true if the pattern matches the URL, false otherwise.

      • toString

        public java.lang.String toString()
        Overrides:
        toString in class java.lang.Object