Package au.csiro.pathling.fhirpath.literal

Class StringLiteral

java.lang.Object

au.csiro.pathling.fhirpath.literal.StringLiteral

public abstract class StringLiteral
extends Object

Utility class for handling FHIRPath string literal escaping and unescaping.

Author:

John Grimes

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	escapeFhirPathString(String value)	On the way back out, we only do the minimal escaping to guarantee syntactical correctness.
static String	unescapeFhirPathString(String value)	This method implements the rules for dealing with strings in the FHIRPath specification.
static String	unquoteFhirIdentifier(String quotedIdentifier)	Unquotes a FHIRPath quoted identifier, handling both the tick quotes and any escaped characters.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

escapeFhirPathString

@Nonnull
public static String escapeFhirPathString(@Nonnull
 String value)

On the way back out, we only do the minimal escaping to guarantee syntactical correctness.

Parameters:

value - the value to apply escaping to

Returns:

the escaped result

unescapeFhirPathString

@Nonnull
public static String unescapeFhirPathString(@Nonnull
 String value)

This method implements the rules for dealing with strings in the FHIRPath specification.

Parameters:

value - the string to be unescaped

Returns:

the unescaped result

See Also:

• String

unquoteFhirIdentifier

@Nonnull
public static String unquoteFhirIdentifier(@Nonnull
 String quotedIdentifier)

Unquotes a FHIRPath quoted identifier, handling both the tick quotes and any escaped characters.

Parameters:

quotedIdentifier - The identifier to unquote

Returns:

the unquoted identifier