tvbrowser.core.search.regexsearch
Class RegexSearcher

java.lang.Object
  tvbrowser.core.search.AbstractSearcher
      tvbrowser.core.search.regexsearch.RegexSearcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

ProgramSearcher

Direct Known Subclasses:

ActorSearcher

public class RegexSearcher
extends AbstractSearcher

Searches for programs using a regular expression.

Author:

Til Schneider, www.murfman.de

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class tvbrowser.core.search.AbstractSearcher

mReplaceSpCh

Constructor Summary

RegexSearcher(java.util.regex.Pattern pattern)
Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

RegexSearcher(java.lang.String regex, boolean caseSensitive)
Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

RegexSearcher(java.lang.String regex, boolean caseSensitive, java.lang.String searchTerm)
Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

Method Summary

static java.util.regex.Pattern	createSearchPattern(java.lang.String regex, boolean caseSensitive) Creates a pattern for a regular expression.
java.util.regex.Pattern	getPattern() get the pattern used by this searcher
protected boolean	matches(java.lang.String value) Checks whether a value matches to the criteria of this searcher.
static java.lang.String	searchTextToRegex(java.lang.String searchText, boolean matchKeyword) Creates a regex from a search text.

Methods inherited from class tvbrowser.core.search.AbstractSearcher

matches, search, search, search

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RegexSearcher

public RegexSearcher(java.util.regex.Pattern pattern)

Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

Parameters:

pattern - The regex pattern to use.

RegexSearcher

public RegexSearcher(java.lang.String regex,
                     boolean caseSensitive)
              throws TvBrowserException

Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

Parameters:

regex -

caseSensitive -

Throws:

TvBrowserException - If there is a syntax error in the regular expression.

RegexSearcher

public RegexSearcher(java.lang.String regex,
                     boolean caseSensitive,
                     java.lang.String searchTerm)
              throws TvBrowserException

Creates a new instance of RegexSearcher.

Parameters:

regex -

caseSensitive -

Throws:

TvBrowserException - If there is a syntax error in the regular expression.

Method Detail

createSearchPattern

public static java.util.regex.Pattern createSearchPattern(java.lang.String regex,
                                                          boolean caseSensitive)
                                                   throws TvBrowserException

Creates a pattern for a regular expression.

Parameters:

regex - The regular expression

caseSensitive - Should the search be case sensitive?

Returns:

The pattern

Throws:

TvBrowserException - If there is a syntax error in the regular expression.

searchTextToRegex

public static java.lang.String searchTextToRegex(java.lang.String searchText,
                                                 boolean matchKeyword)

Creates a regex from a search text.

All regex code in the search text will be quoted. The returned regex will ignore differences in whitespace.

Parameters:

searchText - The search text to create a regex for.

matchKeyword - Specifies whether the regex should match a keyword (= substring). If false the returned regex will only match if the checked String matches exactly

Returns:

The search text as regular expression

matches

protected boolean matches(java.lang.String value)

Checks whether a value matches to the criteria of this searcher.

Specified by:

matches in class AbstractSearcher

Parameters:

value - The value to check

Returns:

Whether the value matches.

getPattern

public java.util.regex.Pattern getPattern()

get the pattern used by this searcher

Returns:

the pattern

Since:

3.0