On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, indika kumara <indika.k...@gmail.com>wrote:
> +1 for the idea. BTW, Is there any way to do this without introducing a new > attribute? i.e only using the regex. > > Hi Indika, We need to have the flags at the time we compile the regex ex : Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternStr, Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); So we need to configure the flags some how. Alternative is having them in the properties file but IMO that will reduce the flexibility. I dont think having a new attribute is a problem since this change is backward compatible (its a optional attribute) thanks, Charith Thanks, > > Indika > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Charith Wickramarachchi < > charith.dhanus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi , >> >> If we look at the current Synapse filter mediator it does not support >> regex based filtering for multi-line Strings. >> IMO having that feature is useful since there are scenarios where we need >> to do reg-ex filtering in multi-line Strings in message. >> >> So as a solution to that i thought of introducing flag support to the >> Filter mediator with the regex matching. So users can optionally configure >> flags like >> MULTILINE , DOTALL , CASE_INSENSITIVE with the filter mediator. >> >> And also they will be able to use the combination of flags >> >> ex : >> DOTALL | CASE_INSENSITIVE >> >> after introducing this example filter mediator will look like this >> >> <filter source="." regex=".*connection.*" flag="DOTALL | CASE_INSENSITIVE" >> xmlns:m="http://www.webserviceX.NET/";> >> >> you can find more information in [1] >> >> I'm going of introduce following flags which i think is useful. >> >> - MULTILINE >> - DOTALL >> - UNIX_LINES >> - CASE_INSENSITIVE >> >> If devs are ok i'll go head and add this feature to trunk. >> >> [1] http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/regular_expressions/multiline.shtml >> >> thanks, >> Charith >> >> >> >> -- >> Charith Dhanushka Wickramarachchi >> http://charithwiki.blogspot.com/ >> >> > -- Charith Dhanushka Wickramarachchi http://charithwiki.blogspot.com/
