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

Class RegexRequestMatcher

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher.RegexRequestMatcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

RequestMatcher

public final class RegexRequestMatcher
extends 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

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher.RequestMatcher

RequestMatcher.MatchResult

Constructor Summary

Constructors

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	matches(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)	Performs the match of the request URL (servletPath + pathInfo + queryString ) against the compiled pattern.
static RegexRequestMatcher	regexMatcher(String pattern)	Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.
static RegexRequestMatcher	regexMatcher(org.springframework.http.HttpMethod method)	Creates an instance that matches to all requests with the same HttpMethod.
static RegexRequestMatcher	regexMatcher(org.springframework.http.HttpMethod method, String pattern)	Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher.RequestMatcher

matcher

Constructor Details

RegexRequestMatcher

public RegexRequestMatcher(String pattern,
 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(String pattern,
 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 Details

regexMatcher

public static RegexRequestMatcher regexMatcher(String pattern)

Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.

Parameters:

pattern - the regular expression to compile into a pattern.

Since:

5.8

regexMatcher

public static RegexRequestMatcher regexMatcher(org.springframework.http.HttpMethod method)

Creates an instance that matches to all requests with the same HttpMethod.

Parameters:

method - the HTTP method to match. Must not be null.

Since:

5.8

regexMatcher

public static RegexRequestMatcher regexMatcher(org.springframework.http.HttpMethod method,
 String pattern)

Creates a case-sensitive Pattern instance to match against the request.

Parameters:

method - the HTTP method to match. May be null to match all methods.

pattern - the regular expression to compile into a pattern.

Since:

5.8

matches

public boolean matches(jakarta.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 String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object