com.day.util

Interface 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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String[]	expand(java.lang.String pattern) Expand the handles to the given pattern.

Method Detail

expand

java.lang.String[] expand(java.lang.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