org.springframework.util
Class PathMatcher

public abstract class PathMatcher

Utility for matching paths with patterns in an Ant-like way. Examples are provided below. Part of this mapping code has been kindly borrowed from Ant (http://ant.apache.org).

The mapping matches urls using the following rules:

• '*' matches zero or more characters
• '?' matches one characters
• ** matches zero or more 'directories' in a path

Some examples:

• com/**\/test.jsp - matches all test.jsp path underneath the com path
• org/springframework/**\/*.jsp - matches all .jsp files underneath the org/springframework path
• com/t?st.jsp - matches test.jsp but also tast.jsp or txst.jsp
• com/**\/servlet/bla.jsp - matches org/springframework/servlet/bla.jsp but also org/springframework/testing/servlet/bla.jsp and com/servlet/bla.jsp

Author:

Alef Arendsen

public static boolean match(String pattern, String str)

Matches a strign agains the given pattern

Parameters:

pattern - the pattern to match against

str - the string to test

Returns: true is the arguments matched, false otherwise