Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

StringTerm

Synopsis

This is the base class for a string comparison. Classes that descend from StringTerm will return true if the search pattern specified in the constructor is a substring of the data that the term is comparing against.

                  
public abstract class StringTerm extends SearchTerm {
// Protected Constructors
   protected StringTerm( String pattern);  
   protected StringTerm( String pattern, boolean ignoreCase);  
// Public Instance Methods
   public boolean getIgnoreCase();  
   public String getPattern();  
// Public Methods Overriding Object
   public boolean equals( Object obj);                           // 1.2
   public int hashCode();                                        // 1.2
                  // Protected Instance Methods
   protected boolean match( String s);  
// Protected Instance Fields
   protected boolean ignoreCase;  
   protected String pattern;  
}

Subclasses

AddressStringTerm, BodyTerm, HeaderTerm, MessageIDTerm, SubjectTerm