Hi Charith, Is it a limitation in Java or regular expression? We usually try to reduce the number of attributes( from the language's perspective).
Thanks, Indika On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Charith Wickramarachchi < charith.dhanus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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/ > >
