org.weborganic.uri.template
Class URITemplate

java.lang.Object
  org.weborganic.uri.template.URITemplate

All Implemented Interfaces:

Expandable

Direct Known Subclasses:

URIPattern

public class URITemplate
extends Object
implements Expandable

A URI Template for constructing URIs following the same structure. Instances of this class implement the URI templates as defined by the URI Template (Draft 3) by Joe Gregorio. A URI Template follows the URI syntax and can be expanded given a set of variable values.

Version:

7 January 2009

Author:

Christophe Lauret

See Also:

URI Template (draft 3)

Constructor Summary

URITemplate(String template)
Creates a new URI Template instance.

Method Summary

static List<Token>	digest(String template) Returns the list of tokens corresponding to the specified URI template.
boolean	equals(Object o)
String	expand(Parameters parameters) Expands the template to produce a URI as defined by the URI Template specifications.
static String	expand(String template, Parameters parameters) Method provided for convenience.
int	hashCode()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

URITemplate

public URITemplate(String template)
            throws IllegalArgumentException

Creates a new URI Template instance.

Parameters:

template - A String following the URI template syntax.

Throws:

NullPointerException - If the specified template is null.

URITemplateSyntaxException - If the string provided does not follow the proper syntax.

IllegalArgumentException

Method Detail

expand

public String expand(Parameters parameters)

Expands the template to produce a URI as defined by the URI Template specifications.

Specified by:

expand in interface Expandable

Parameters:

parameters - The list of variables and their values for substitution.

Returns:

The expanded URI fragment

expand

public static String expand(String template,
                            Parameters parameters)

Method provided for convenience. It returns the same as:

 return new URITemplate(template).expand(variables);
 

Parameters:

template - The URI template.

parameters - The parameter values to use for substitution.

Returns:

The corresponding expanded URI.

digest

public static List<Token> digest(String template)
                          throws URITemplateSyntaxException

Returns the list of tokens corresponding to the specified URI template.

Parameters:

template - The URI template to digest.

Returns:

The corresponding list of URL tokens.

Throws:

URITemplateSyntaxException - If the string cannot be parsed.

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object