gate.jape.constraint
Class RegExpMatchPredicate

java.lang.Object
  gate.jape.constraint.AbstractConstraintPredicate
      gate.jape.constraint.AbstractRegExpPredicate
          gate.jape.constraint.RegExpMatchPredicate

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConstraintPredicate, Serializable

public class RegExpMatchPredicate
extends AbstractRegExpPredicate

Implementation of the ==~ predicate, which succeeds if the entire annotation value matches the given regular expression, and fails otherwise.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class gate.jape.constraint.AbstractConstraintPredicate

accessor, value

Fields inherited from interface gate.jape.constraint.ConstraintPredicate

EQUAL, GREATER, GREATER_OR_EQUAL, LESSER, LESSER_OR_EQUAL, NOT_EQUAL, NOT_REGEXP_FIND, NOT_REGEXP_MATCH, REGEXP_FIND, REGEXP_MATCH

Constructor Summary

RegExpMatchPredicate()

Method Summary

String	getOperator() String representation of the logic operator that the predicate implements.
protected boolean	matcherResult(Matcher m) Must be implemented by subclasses to define the matching logic, typically one of Matcher.find() and Matcher.matches(), possibly negated.

Methods inherited from class gate.jape.constraint.AbstractRegExpPredicate

doMatch, setValue, toString

Methods inherited from class gate.jape.constraint.AbstractConstraintPredicate

equals, getAccessor, getValue, hashCode, matches, setAccessor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RegExpMatchPredicate

public RegExpMatchPredicate()

Method Detail

matcherResult

protected boolean matcherResult(Matcher m)

Description copied from class: AbstractRegExpPredicate

Must be implemented by subclasses to define the matching logic, typically one of Matcher.find() and Matcher.matches(), possibly negated.

Specified by:

matcherResult in class AbstractRegExpPredicate

Parameters:

m - a Matcher for the annotation value string, obtained from the constraint pattern.

Returns:

true if this constraint should be considered to match, false otherwise.

getOperator

public String getOperator()

Description copied from interface: ConstraintPredicate

String representation of the logic operator that the predicate implements.