How to use

StringPatternConnection

in

org.datacleaner.reference

@Close
public void close() {
  if (stringPatternConnections != null) {
    for (final StringPatternConnection connection : stringPatternConnections) {
      connection.close();
    }
    stringPatternConnections = null;
  }
}

public Object[] doMatching(final Object value) {
  final Object[] result = new Object[stringPatternConnections.length];
  final String stringValue = ConvertToStringTransformer.transformValue(value);
  for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
    final boolean matches = stringPatternConnections[i].matches(stringValue);
    if (_outputType == MatchOutputType.TRUE_FALSE) {
      result[i] = matches;
    } else if (_outputType == MatchOutputType.INPUT_OR_NULL) {
      if (matches) {
        result[i] = stringValue;
      } else {
        result[i] = null;
      }
    }
  }
  return result;
}

@Close
public void close() {
  if (stringPatternConnections != null) {
    for (final StringPatternConnection stringPatternConnection : stringPatternConnections) {
      stringPatternConnection.close();
    }
    stringPatternConnections = null;
  }
}

@Override
public ValidationCategory categorize(final InputRow inputRow) {
  final String value = inputRow.getValue(column);
  if (value != null) {
    int matches = 0;
    for (final StringPatternConnection connection : stringPatternConnections) {
      if (connection.matches(value)) {
        matches++;
        if (matchCriteria == MatchFilterCriteria.ANY) {
          return ValidationCategory.VALID;
        }
      }
    }
    if (matchCriteria == MatchFilterCriteria.ALL) {
      return ValidationCategory.valueOf(matches == stringPatterns.length);
    }
  }
  return ValidationCategory.INVALID;
}