This sure is interesting and brings up 2 points. (1) This can be done with a "decorator" and (2) this brings up the topic again of whether or not it would be a good thing to have a [commons-re] like we have a [commons-logging], a super thin wrapper that delegates to 1.4 or, in this case, [ORO-RE] or [RegExp].
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark R. Diggory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 09:06 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: [collections] Yipes, I need Regexp based get on a Map > > I'm trying to put together a lookup mechanism that is regular expression > based. For example > > > Map map = ...; > > Bar bar = new Bar(); > > map.put("^http://foo.bar*",bar); > > > Bar bar2 = (Bar)map.get("http://foo.bar/bam";); > > > get("...") would return the bar object. Of course, this could match > multiple values, as such get("...") could return the first value > encountered or a Collection of all the matches encountered. > > Collection bars = (Collection)map.get("http://foo.bar/bam";); > Iterator iter = bars.iterator(); > Bar bar2 = (Bar)iter.next(); > > Any ideas on how I can throw this together using Commons Collections as > a basis? I can live with just >=j2sdk1.4 compatibility. Is this > something Commons Collections would like to have available? > > -Mark > -- > Mark Diggory > Software Developer > Harvard MIT Data Center > http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
