org.acmsl.regexpplugin
Interface Compiler

All Superinterfaces:

org.acmsl.version.Versionable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AwkCompilerOROAdapter, CompilerGNUAdapter, CompilerRegexpAdapter, Perl5CompilerOROAdapter

public interface Compiler

extends org.acmsl.version.Versionable

Represents a regexp compiler. Different implementations vary but they all must respect this set of methods.

Version:

$Revision: 1.6 $

Author:

Jose San Leandro Armend?riz

Field Summary

static org.acmsl.version.Version

VERSION Concrete version object updated everytime it's checked-in in a CVS repository.

Method Summary

Pattern	compile(java.lang.String regexp) Compiles given regular expression and creates a Pattern object to apply such rule on concrete text contents.
boolean	isCaseSensitive() Retrieves if the compiler is configured to be case sensitive or not.
boolean	isMultiline() Retrieves if the compiler is configured to care about new line delimiters or not.
void	setCaseSensitive(boolean caseSensitive) Sets whether the compiler should care about case sensitiveness or not.
void	setMultiline(boolean multiline) Sets whether the compiler should care about new line delimiters or not.

Methods inherited from interface org.acmsl.version.Versionable

getVersion

Field Detail

VERSION

public static final org.acmsl.version.Version VERSION

Concrete version object updated everytime it's checked-in in a CVS repository.

Method Detail

compile

public Pattern compile(java.lang.String regexp)
                throws MalformedPatternException

Compiles given regular expression and creates a Pattern object to apply such rule on concrete text contents.

Parameters:

regexp - the regular expression to compile.

Returns:

the Pattern associated to such regular expression.

Throws:

MalformedPatternException - if given regexp is malformed.

setCaseSensitive

public void setCaseSensitive(boolean caseSensitive)

Sets whether the compiler should care about case sensitiveness or not.

Parameters:

caseSensitive - true for differentiate upper from lower case.

isCaseSensitive

public boolean isCaseSensitive()

Retrieves if the compiler is configured to be case sensitive or not.

Returns:

true if the compiler differentiates upper from lower case.

setMultiline

public void setMultiline(boolean multiline)

Sets whether the compiler should care about new line delimiters or not.

Parameters:

multiline - false for parsing each line at a time.

isMultiline

public boolean isMultiline()

Retrieves if the compiler is configured to care about new line delimiters or not.

Returns:

true if the compiler understands new line delimiters.