/**
* Copyright 2009 Google Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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*
*/
package org.waveprotocol.wave.client.common.util;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Interface representing a regular expression. GWT does not support the
* java.util.regex library and the JS implementation does not have the same
* support. Using this to have Java/GWT regex support agree on a similar
* interface for both runtime and testing implementations.
*
*/
public interface RegExp {
interface Factory {
RegExp create(String regex);
}
Factory FACTORY = GWT.create(RegExp.Factory.class);
/**
* Tests if the given string matches the regexp, and returns true if matching,
* false if not.
*
* @param test the string to test against.
* @return true if match was found, otherwise false.
*/
public boolean test(String test);
/**
* Searches a string for a specified value. Returns all strings that matched.
*
* @param test the string to test against.
* @return list of matches or empty list is non-found.
*/
public List<String> getMatches(String test);
}