com.bazaarvoice.jolt.common.pathelement

Interface MatchablePathElement

All Superinterfaces:

PathElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

StarPathElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

AmpPathElement, ArrayPathElement, AtPathElement, DollarPathElement, HashPathElement, LiteralPathElement, StarAllPathElement, StarDoublePathElement, StarRegexPathElement, StarSinglePathElement, TransposePathElement

public interface MatchablePathElement
extends PathElement

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MatchedElement	match(String dataKey, WalkedPath walkedPath) See if this PathElement matches the given dataKey.

Methods inherited from interface com.bazaarvoice.jolt.common.pathelement.PathElement

getCanonicalForm, getRawKey

Method Detail

match

MatchedElement match(String dataKey,
                     WalkedPath walkedPath)

See if this PathElement matches the given dataKey. If it does not match, this method returns null. If this PathElement does match, it returns a LiteralPathElement with subKeys filled in.

Parameters:

dataKey - String key value from the input data

walkedPath - "up the tree" list of LiteralPathElements, that may be used by this key as it is computing its match

Returns:

null or a matched LiteralPathElement