javax.mail.search
Class StringTerm

java.lang.Object
  javax.mail.search.SearchTerm
      javax.mail.search.StringTerm

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AddressStringTerm, BodyTerm, HeaderTerm, MessageIDTerm, SubjectTerm

public abstract class StringTerm

extends SearchTerm

This class implements the match method for Strings. The current implementation provides only for substring matching. We could add comparisons (like strcmp ...).

Author:

Bill Shannon, John Mani

See Also:

Serialized Form

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj) Equality comparison.
boolean	getIgnoreCase() Return true if we should ignore case when matching.
java.lang.String	getPattern() Return the string to match with.
int	hashCode() Compute a hashCode for this object.

Methods inherited from class javax.mail.search.SearchTerm

match

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getPattern

public java.lang.String getPattern()

Return the string to match with.

getIgnoreCase

public boolean getIgnoreCase()

Return true if we should ignore case when matching.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Equality comparison.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Compute a hashCode for this object.