com.day.util
Interface HandleExpander

All Known Subinterfaces:

HandleExpander

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileExpander, URLExpander

public interface HandleExpander

A HandleExpander is used to expand a globbing pattern to a list of handles, that match the given pattern. This 'expansiion' is done unix-shell-like. for example the pattern

/site/* could be expanded to /site/en, /site/fr.

Since:

antbear

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2004-08-22 06:56:09 +0200 (Sun, 22 Aug 2004) $

Author:

tripod

Method Summary

String[]

expand(String pattern) Expand the handles to the given pattern.

Method Detail

expand

String[] expand(String pattern)

Expand the handles to the given pattern.

Parameters:

pattern - the pattern to match.

Returns:

an array of handles that are expanded from the pattern