edu.nyu.jet.time

Class PatternItem

java.lang.Object

edu.nyu.jet.time.PatternItem

Direct Known Subclasses:

DayOfWeekPattern, MonthPattern, NumberPattern, RegexPattern, StringPattern, TimePattern

public abstract class PatternItem
extends Object

a predefined pattern element for a time expression pattern.

Author:

Akira Oda

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PatternItem()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract PatternMatchResult	match(Document doc, List<Annotation> tokens, int offset) if tokens[offset] matches the Pattern Item, return a PatternMatchResult containing the normalized value of the matched token along with the span of the matched token, else null.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PatternItem

public PatternItem()

Method Detail

match

public abstract PatternMatchResult match(Document doc,
                       List<Annotation> tokens,
                       int offset)

if tokens[offset] matches the Pattern Item, return a PatternMatchResult containing the normalized value of the matched token along with the span of the matched token, else null.