Package org.forgerock.opendj.ldap.schema

Interface MatchingRuleImpl

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEqualityMatchingRuleImpl, AbstractOrderingMatchingRuleImpl, HistoricalCsnOrderingMatchingRuleImpl, HistoricalCsnRangeMatchingRuleImpl

public interface MatchingRuleImpl

This interface defines the set of methods that must be implemented to define a new matching rule.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<? extends Indexer>	createIndexers(IndexingOptions options)	Returns the indexers for this matching rule.
Assertion	getAssertion(Schema schema, ByteSequence assertionValue)	Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing less than matching operations on that value.
Assertion	getGreaterOrEqualAssertion(Schema schema, ByteSequence value)	Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing greater than or equal matching operations on that value.
Assertion	getLessOrEqualAssertion(Schema schema, ByteSequence value)	Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing less than or equal matching operations on that value.
Assertion	getSubstringAssertion(Schema schema, ByteSequence subInitial, List<? extends ByteSequence> subAnyElements, ByteSequence subFinal)	Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion substring values, which is best suited for efficiently performing matching operations on that value.
ByteString	normalizeAttributeValue(Schema schema, ByteSequence value)	Retrieves the normalized form of the provided attribute value, which is best suited for efficiently performing matching operations on that value.

Method Detail

getAssertion

Assertion getAssertion(Schema schema,
                       ByteSequence assertionValue)
                throws DecodeException

Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing less than matching operations on that value. The assertion value is guaranteed to be valid against this matching rule's assertion syntax.

Parameters:

schema - The schema in which this matching rule is defined.

assertionValue - The syntax checked assertion value to be normalized.

Returns:

The normalized version of the provided assertion value.

Throws:

DecodeException - if an syntax error occurred while parsing the value.

getSubstringAssertion

Assertion getSubstringAssertion(Schema schema,
                                ByteSequence subInitial,
                                List<? extends ByteSequence> subAnyElements,
                                ByteSequence subFinal)
                         throws DecodeException

Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion substring values, which is best suited for efficiently performing matching operations on that value.

Parameters:

schema - The schema in which this matching rule is defined.

subInitial - The normalized substring value fragment that should appear at the beginning of the target value.

subAnyElements - The normalized substring value fragments that should appear in the middle of the target value.

subFinal - The normalized substring value fragment that should appear at the end of the target value.

Returns:

The normalized version of the provided assertion value.

Throws:

DecodeException - if an syntax error occurred while parsing the value.

getGreaterOrEqualAssertion

Assertion getGreaterOrEqualAssertion(Schema schema,
                                     ByteSequence value)
                              throws DecodeException

Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing greater than or equal matching operations on that value. The assertion value is guaranteed to be valid against this matching rule's assertion syntax.

Parameters:

schema - The schema in which this matching rule is defined.

value - The syntax checked assertion value to be normalized.

Returns:

The normalized version of the provided assertion value.

Throws:

DecodeException - if an syntax error occurred while parsing the value.

getLessOrEqualAssertion

Assertion getLessOrEqualAssertion(Schema schema,
                                  ByteSequence value)
                           throws DecodeException

Retrieves the normalized form of the provided assertion value, which is best suited for efficiently performing less than or equal matching operations on that value. The assertion value is guaranteed to be valid against this matching rule's assertion syntax.

Parameters:

schema - The schema in which this matching rule is defined.

value - The syntax checked assertion value to be normalized.

Returns:

The normalized version of the provided assertion value.

Throws:

DecodeException - if an syntax error occurred while parsing the value.

normalizeAttributeValue

ByteString normalizeAttributeValue(Schema schema,
                                   ByteSequence value)
                            throws DecodeException

Retrieves the normalized form of the provided attribute value, which is best suited for efficiently performing matching operations on that value. Equality and ordering matching rules should return a normalized representation which can be compared with other normalized values using ByteSequence.equals(Object) and ByteSequence.compareTo(ByteSequence).

Parameters:

schema - The schema in which this matching rule is defined.

value - The attribute value to be normalized.

Returns:

The normalized version of the provided attribute value.

Throws:

DecodeException - If an syntax error occurred while parsing the value.

createIndexers

Collection<? extends Indexer> createIndexers(IndexingOptions options)

Returns the indexers for this matching rule.

Parameters:

options - The indexing options

Returns:

a non null collection of indexers for this matching rule.