web-path-matcher

Simple web path matching utility. Pattern to be matched can use

• individual '?' character to represent any character
• individual '*' character to represent any sequence of characters except '/'
• path segment with only '*' characters (more than one) to represent any sequence of path elements

Examples

• '/foo/**' represents paths like /foo or /foo/bar/one
• '/foo/*.xml' represents paths like /foo/a.xml or /foo/bar.xml
• '/foo/?.xml' represents paths like /foo/a.xml or /foo/b.xml

It is helper implementation for implementing http servlet filters and similar implementations.

Java usage

  PathMatcher matcher = PathMatcher.instance("/foo/**");
  String path = "/foo/bar";
  if(matcher.match(path)) { ... }

Maven usage

   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.antonsjava</groupId>
      <artifactId>web-path-matcher</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
   </dependency>