javax.mail.search
class AddressStringTerm

javax.mail.search.SearchTerm javax.mail.search.StringTerm javax.mail.search.AddressStringTerm

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

FromStringTerm, RecipientStringTerm

public abstract class AddressStringTerm
extends StringTerm

This abstract class implements string comparisons for Message addresses.

Note that this class differs from the AddressTerm class in that this class does comparisons on address strings rather than Address objects.

AddressStringTerm

protected AddressStringTerm(String pattern)

Constructor.

Parameters:

pattern - the address pattern to be compared.

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Equality comparison.

Overrides:

equals in class StringTerm

Parameters:

obj

match

protected boolean match(Address a)

Check whether the address pattern specified in the constructor is a substring of the string representation of the given Address object.

Note that if the string representation of the given Address object contains charset or transfer encodings, the encodings must be accounted for, during the match process.

Parameters:

a - The comparison is applied to this Address object.

Returns:

true if the match succeeds, otherwise false.