net.sf.ehcache.search.expression
Interface Criteria

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlwaysMatch, And, BaseCriteria, Between, ComparableValue, EqualTo, GreaterThan, GreaterThanOrEqual, ILike, InCollection, IsNull, LessThan, LessThanOrEqual, Not, NotEqualTo, NotILike, NotNull, Or

public interface Criteria

Criteria interface defines a boolean function that computes a search match result

Author:

teck

Method Summary

Criteria	and(Criteria other) Produce a criteria that is the boolean "and" of this and the given other criteria
boolean	execute(Element element, Map<String,AttributeExtractor> attributeExtractors) Test this criteria against a cache element
Criteria	not() Produce a criteria that is the boolean "not" of this
Criteria	or(Criteria other) Produce a criteria that is the boolean "or" of this and the given other criteria

Method Detail

execute

boolean execute(Element element,
                Map<String,AttributeExtractor> attributeExtractors)

Test this criteria against a cache element

Parameters:

element - cache element

attributeExtractors - map of attribute extractors to attribute value names

Returns:

true if the criteria matches this element

and

Criteria and(Criteria other)

Produce a criteria that is the boolean "and" of this and the given other criteria

Parameters:

other -

Returns:

and criteria

or

Criteria or(Criteria other)

Produce a criteria that is the boolean "or" of this and the given other criteria

Parameters:

other -

Returns:

or criteria

not

Criteria not()

Produce a criteria that is the boolean "not" of this

Returns:

not criteria