Package io.cucumber.cucumberexpressions

Interface PatternCompiler

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@API(status=STABLE)
@FunctionalInterface
public interface PatternCompiler

Abstracts creation of new Pattern. In some platforms and Java versions some flags are not supported (e.g Pattern.UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS on Android) - clients for those platforms should provide resource META-INF/services/io.cucumber.cucumberexpressions.PatternCompiler pointing to implementation of this interface.

See Also:

• DefaultPatternCompiler
• ServiceLoader

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Pattern	compile(String regexp, int flags)

Method Details

compile

Pattern compile(String regexp,
 int flags)

Parameters:

regexp - regular expression

flags - additional flags (e.g. Pattern.UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS)

Returns:

new Pattern instance from provided regexp