org.apache.oro.text.regex
Interface PatternMatchingEngine

All Known Implementing Classes:

AwkEngine, GlobEngine, JavaEngine, Perl5Engine

public interface PatternMatchingEngine

PatternMatchingEngine is an interface that abstracts a regular expression implementation into a PatternCompiler, a PatternMatcher, and PatternCompilerOptions. Implementations of PatternMatchingEngine can wrap any regular expression implementation and make them usable using the jakarta-oro interfaces.

Since:

2.1

Version:

2.1-dev-1

Method Summary

PatternCompiler	createCompiler() Creates a new instance of a PatternCompiler that can compile patterns for a particular regular expression engine.
PatternMatcher	createMatcher() Creates a new instance of a PatternMatcher that can match patterns for a particular regular expression engine.
PatternCompilerOptions	getOptions() Returns a PatternCompilerOptions object that can map generic PatternCompilerOptions option constants into constants specific to a particular regular expression engine.

Method Detail

createCompiler

public PatternCompiler createCompiler()

Creates a new instance of a PatternCompiler that can compile patterns for a particular regular expression engine.

Returns:

A new PatternCompiler.

createMatcher

public PatternMatcher createMatcher()

Creates a new instance of a PatternMatcher that can match patterns for a particular regular expression engine.

Returns:

A new PatternMatcher.

getOptions

public PatternCompilerOptions getOptions()

Returns a PatternCompilerOptions object that can map generic PatternCompilerOptions option constants into constants specific to a particular regular expression engine.

Returns:

A PatternCompilerOptions object corresponding to an engine.