org.apache.commons.io.filefilter
Class WildcardFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.AbstractFileFilter
      org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

FileFilter, FilenameFilter, IOFileFilter

public class WildcardFilter

extends AbstractFileFilter

Filters files using supplied wildcard(s).

See org.apache.commons.io.find.FilenameUtils.wildcardMatch() for wildcard matching rules

e.g.

 File dir = new File(".");
 FileFilter fileFilter = new WildcardFilter("*test*.java~*~");
 File[] files = dir.listFiles(fileFilter);
 for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
   System.out.println(files[i]);
 }
 

Since:

Commons IO 1.1

Version:

$Revision: 155419 $ $Date: 2005-02-26 13:02:41 +0000 (Sat, 26 Feb 2005) $

Constructor Summary

WildcardFilter(List wildcards)
Construct a new wildcard filter for a list of wildcards

WildcardFilter(String wildcard)
Construct a new wildcard filter for a single wildcard

WildcardFilter(String[] wildcards)
Construct a new wildcard filter for an array of wildcards

Method Summary

boolean	accept(File file) Checks to see if the filename matches one of the wildcards.
boolean	accept(File dir, String name) Checks to see if the filename matches one of the wildcards.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WildcardFilter

public WildcardFilter(String wildcard)

Construct a new wildcard filter for a single wildcard

Parameters:

wildcard - wildcard to match

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the pattern is null

WildcardFilter

public WildcardFilter(String[] wildcards)

Construct a new wildcard filter for an array of wildcards

Parameters:

wildcards - wildcards to match

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the pattern array is null

WildcardFilter

public WildcardFilter(List wildcards)

Construct a new wildcard filter for a list of wildcards

Parameters:

wildcards - list of wildcards to match

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the pattern list is null

ClassCastException - if the list does not contain Strings

Method Detail

accept

public boolean accept(File dir,
                      String name)

Checks to see if the filename matches one of the wildcards.

Specified by:

accept in interface IOFileFilter

Overrides:

accept in class AbstractFileFilter

Parameters:

dir - the file directory

name - the filename

Returns:

true if the filename matches one of the wildcards

accept

public boolean accept(File file)

Checks to see if the filename matches one of the wildcards.

Specified by:

accept in interface IOFileFilter

Overrides:

accept in class AbstractFileFilter

Parameters:

file - the file to check

Returns:

true if the filename matches one of the wildcards