javax.mail.search
Class AddressStringTerm

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

FromStringTerm, RecipientStringTerm

public abstract class AddressStringTerm

extends StringTerm

This abstract class implements string comparisons for Message addresses.

Note that this class differs from the AddressTerm class in that this class does comparisons on address strings rather than Address objects.

Since:

JavaMail 1.1

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class javax.mail.search.StringTerm

ignoreCase, pattern

Constructor Summary

protected

AddressStringTerm(java.lang.String pattern) Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj) Equality comparison.
protected boolean	match(Address a) Check whether the address pattern specified in the constructor is a substring of the string representation of the given Address object.

Methods inherited from class javax.mail.search.StringTerm

getIgnoreCase, getPattern, hashCode, match

Methods inherited from class javax.mail.search.SearchTerm

match

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AddressStringTerm

protected AddressStringTerm(java.lang.String pattern)

Constructor.

Parameters:

pattern - the address pattern to be compared.

Method Detail

match

protected boolean match(Address a)

Check whether the address pattern specified in the constructor is a substring of the string representation of the given Address object.

Note that if the string representation of the given Address object contains charset or transfer encodings, the encodings must be accounted for, during the match process.

Parameters:

a - The comparison is applied to this Address object.

Returns:

true if the match succeeds, otherwise false.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Equality comparison.

Overrides:

equals in class StringTerm