com.ibm.di.server.criteria
Interface MatchCustomizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMatcherCustomizer

public interface MatchCustomizer

Defines a contract for plugging in a customization of the default matching mechanism.

Note: This class is for internal usage only. Any dependency from the end-user will not be supported. Changes to this class will happen without a warning.

Since:

7.2

Method Summary

boolean

match(SearchCriteria.rscSearch criterion, Object value) Matches all values of the specified attribute against the specified criterion.

Method Detail

match

boolean match(SearchCriteria.rscSearch criterion,
              Object value)

Matches all values of the specified attribute against the specified criterion. If more than one value of an attribute must be matched this method will be called several times with different values for SearchCriteria.rscSearch.value.

Parameters:

criterion - the defined criteria

value - the value found in the Attribute of the provided entry

Returns:

true if the specified value match, false otherwise

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - thrown to denote unexpected data is provided. Make sure an appropriate message is displayed as the exception will be propagated back to the user.