Package com.illumon.iris.db.tables.utils

Interface ExpressionFactory<TYPE>

Type Parameters:

TYPE -

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractExpressionFactory

public interface ExpressionFactory<TYPE>

A Factory class that produces ExpressionFactory instances based on an expression.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
TYPE	getExpression(String expression, Matcher matcher, Object... args)	Parse the specified expression into an instance of ExpressionFactory
String	getPattern()	Get the regex pattern used to match this expression flavor.

Method Details

getExpression

TYPE getExpression(String expression,
 Matcher matcher,
 Object... args)

Parse the specified expression into an instance of ExpressionFactory

Parameters:

expression - the expression to parse.

matcher - the completed matcher

args - the arguments from the source

Returns:

a new ExpressionFactory

getPattern

@NotNull
String getPattern()

Get the regex pattern used to match this expression flavor.

Returns:

the string pattern