ObjectName JDK 1.6)

Description

@SuppressWarnings (value="serial")
public class ObjectName

Represents the object name of an MBean, or a pattern that can match the names of several MBeans.

Represents the object name of an MBean, or a pattern that can match the names of several MBeans. Instances of this class are immutable.

An instance of this class can be used to represent:

An object name
An object name pattern, within the context of a query

An object name consists of two parts, the domain and the key properties.

The domain is a string of characters not including the character colon (:). It is recommended that the domain should not contain the string "//", which is reserved for future use.

If the domain includes at least one occurrence of the wildcard characters asterisk (*) or question mark (?), then the object name is a pattern. The asterisk matches any sequence of zero or more characters, while the question mark matches any single character.

If the domain is empty, it will be replaced in certain contexts by the default domain of the MBean server in which the ObjectName is used.

The key properties are an unordered set of keys and associated values.

Each key is a nonempty string of characters which may not contain any of the characters comma (,), equals (=), colon, asterisk, or question mark. The same key may not occur twice in a given ObjectName.

Each value associated with a key is a string of characters that is either unquoted or quoted.

An unquoted value is a possibly empty string of characters which may not contain any of the characters comma, equals, colon, or quote.

If the unquoted value contains at least one occurrence of the wildcard characters asterisk or question mark, then the object name is a property value pattern. The asterisk matches any sequence of zero or more characters, while the question mark matches any single character.

A quoted value consists of a quote ("), followed by a possibly empty string of characters, followed by another quote. Within the string of characters, the backslash (\) has a special meaning. It must be followed by one of the following characters:

Another backslash. The second backslash has no special meaning and the two characters represent a single backslash.
The character 'n'. The two characters represent a newline ('\n' in Java).
A quote. The two characters represent a quote, and that quote is not considered to terminate the quoted value. An ending closing quote must be present for the quoted value to be valid.
A question mark (?) or asterisk (*). The two characters represent a question mark or asterisk respectively.

A quote may not appear inside a quoted value except immediately after an odd number of consecutive backslashes.

The quotes surrounding a quoted value, and any backslashes within that value, are considered to be part of the value.

If the quoted value contains at least one occurrence of the characters asterisk or question mark and they are not preceded by a backslash, then they are considered as wildcard characters and the object name is a property value pattern. The asterisk matches any sequence of zero or more characters, while the question mark matches any single character.

An ObjectName may be a property list pattern. In this case it may have zero or more keys and associated values. It matches a nonpattern ObjectName whose domain matches and that contains the same keys and associated values, as well as possibly other keys and values.

An ObjectName is a property value pattern when at least one of its quoted or unquoted key property values contains the wildcard characters asterisk or question mark as described above. In this case it has one or more keys and associated values, with at least one of the values containing wildcard characters. It matches a nonpattern ObjectName whose domain matches and that contains the same keys whose values match; if the property value pattern is also a property list pattern then the nonpattern ObjectName can contain other keys and values.

An ObjectName is a property pattern if it is either a property list pattern or a property value pattern or both.

An ObjectName is a pattern if its domain contains a wildcard or if the ObjectName is a property pattern.

If an ObjectName is not a pattern, it must contain at least one key with its associated value.

Examples of ObjectName patterns are:

*:type=Foo,name=Bar to match names in any domain whose exact set of keys is type=Foo,name=Bar.
d:type=Foo,name=Bar,* to match names in the domain d that have the keys type=Foo,name=Bar plus zero or more other keys.
*:type=Foo,name=Bar,* to match names in any domain that has the keys type=Foo,name=Bar plus zero or more other keys.
d:type=F?o,name=Bar will match e.g. d:type=Foo,name=Bar and d:type=Fro,name=Bar.
d:type=F*o,name=Bar will match e.g. d:type=Fo,name=Bar and d:type=Frodo,name=Bar.
d:type=Foo,name="B*" will match e.g. d:type=Foo,name="Bling". Wildcards are recognized even inside quotes, and like other special characters can be escaped with \.

An ObjectName can be written as a String with the following elements in order:

The domain.
A colon (:).
A key property list as defined below.

A key property list written as a String is a comma-separated list of elements. Each element is either an asterisk or a key property. A key property consists of a key, an equals (=), and the associated value.

At most one element of a key property list may be an asterisk. If the key property list contains an asterisk element, the ObjectName is a property list pattern.

Spaces have no special significance in a String representing an ObjectName. For example, the String:

 domain: key1 = value1 , key2 = value2

represents an ObjectName with two keys. The name of each key contains six characters, of which the first and last are spaces. The value associated with the key " key1 " also begins and ends with a space.

In addition to the restrictions on characters spelt out above, no part of an ObjectName may contain a newline character ('\n'), whether the domain, a key, or a value, whether quoted or unquoted. The newline character can be represented in a quoted value with the sequence \n.

The rules on special characters and quoting apply regardless of which constructor is used to make an ObjectName.

To avoid collisions between MBeans supplied by different vendors, a useful convention is to begin the domain name with the reverse DNS name of the organization that specifies the MBeans, followed by a period and a string whose interpretation is determined by that organization. For example, MBeans specified by Sun Microsystems Inc., DNS name sun.com, would have domains such as com.sun.MyDomain. This is essentially the same convention as for Java-language package names.

The serialVersionUID of this class is 1081892073854801359L.

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Methods

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public boolean apply (ObjectName name) throws NullPointerException [Specified in QueryExp]

Test whether this ObjectName, which may be a pattern, matches another ObjectName.

Test whether this ObjectName, which may be a pattern, matches another ObjectName. If name is a pattern, the result is false. If this ObjectName is a pattern, the result is true if and only if name matches the pattern. If neither this ObjectName nor name is a pattern, the result is true if and only if the two ObjectNames are equal as described for the ObjectName.equals(Object) method.

Returns: True if name matches this ObjectName.
Parameters:
- name - The name of the MBean to compare to.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if name is null.

public int compareTo (ObjectName name)

Compares two ObjectName instances.

public boolean equals (Object object)

Compares the current object name with another object name.

Compares the current object name with another object name. Two
ObjectName instances are equal if and only if their canonical
forms are equal. The canonical form is the string described
for ObjectName.getCanonicalName().
Returns: True if object is an ObjectName whose canonical form is equal to that of this ObjectName.
Parameters:
- object - The object name that the current object name is to be compared with.

public String getCanonicalKeyPropertyListString ()

Returns a string representation of the list of key properties, in which the key properties are sorted in lexical order.

public String getCanonicalName ()

Returns the canonical form of the name; that is, a string representation where the properties are sorted in lexical order.

public String getDomain ()

Returns the domain part.

publicstatic ObjectName getInstance (ObjectName name) throws NullPointerException

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere the given object can be used.

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere the given object can be used. The returned object may be of a subclass of ObjectName. If name is of a subclass of ObjectName, it is not guaranteed that the returned object will be of the same class.

The returned value may or may not be identical to name. Calling this method twice with the same parameters may return the same object or two equal but not identical objects.

Since ObjectName is immutable, it is not usually useful to make a copy of an ObjectName. The principal use of this method is to guard against a malicious caller who might pass an instance of a subclass with surprising behavior to sensitive code. Such code can call this method to obtain an ObjectName that is known not to have surprising behavior.

Returns: an instance of ObjectName or a subclass that is known to have the same semantics. If name respects the semantics of ObjectName, then the returned object is equal (though not necessarily identical) to name.
Parameters:
- name - an instance of the ObjectName class or of a subclass
Throws:
- NullPointerException - The name is null.

publicstatic ObjectName getInstance (String name) throws MalformedObjectNameException NullPointerException

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with

new
 ObjectName(name)

can be used.

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with new ObjectName(name) can be used. The returned object may be of a subclass of ObjectName. Calling this method twice with the same parameters may return the same object or two equal but not identical objects.

Returns: an ObjectName corresponding to the given String.
Parameters:
- name - A string representation of the object name.
Throws:
- MalformedObjectNameException - The string passed as a parameter does not have the right format.
- NullPointerException - The name parameter is null.

publicstatic ObjectName getInstance (String domain, Hashtable<String, String> table) throws MalformedObjectNameException NullPointerException

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with new ObjectName(domain, table) can be used.

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with new ObjectName(domain, table) can be used. The returned object may be of a subclass of ObjectName. Calling this method twice with the same parameters may return the same object or two equal but not identical objects.

Returns: an ObjectName corresponding to the given domain and key mappings.
Parameters:
- domain - The domain part of the object name.
- table - A hash table containing one or more key properties. The key of each entry in the table is the key of a key property in the object name. The associated value in the table is the associated value in the object name.
Throws:
- MalformedObjectNameException - The domain contains an illegal character, or one of the keys or values in table contains an illegal character, or one of the values in table does not follow the rules for quoting.
- NullPointerException - One of the parameters is null.

publicstatic ObjectName getInstance (String domain, String key, String value) throws MalformedObjectNameException NullPointerException

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with new ObjectName(domain, key, value) can be used.

Return an instance of ObjectName that can be used anywhere an object obtained with new ObjectName(domain, key, value) can be used. The returned object may be of a subclass of ObjectName. Calling this method twice with the same parameters may return the same object or two equal but not identical objects.

Returns: an ObjectName corresponding to the given domain, key, and value.
Parameters:
- domain - The domain part of the object name.
- key - The attribute in the key property of the object name.
- value - The value in the key property of the object name.
Throws:
- MalformedObjectNameException - The domain, key, or value contains an illegal character, or value does not follow the rules for quoting.
- NullPointerException - One of the parameters is null.

public String getKeyProperty (String property) throws NullPointerException

Obtains the value associated with a key in a key property.

Obtains the value associated with a key in a key property.
Returns: The value of the property, or null if there is no such property in this ObjectName.
Parameters:
- property - The property whose value is to be obtained.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If property is null.

public Hashtable<String, String> getKeyPropertyList ()

Returns the key properties as a Hashtable.

public String getKeyPropertyListString ()

Returns a string representation of the list of key properties specified at creation time.

public int hashCode ()

Returns a hash code for this object name.

public boolean isDomainPattern ()

Checks whether the object name is a pattern on the domain part.

public boolean isPattern ()

Checks whether the object name is a pattern.

public boolean isPropertyListPattern ()

Checks whether the object name is a pattern on the key property list.

public boolean isPropertyPattern ()

Checks whether the object name is a pattern on the key properties.

public boolean isPropertyValuePattern ()

Checks whether the object name is a pattern on the value part of at least one of the key properties.

public boolean isPropertyValuePattern (String property) throws NullPointerException IllegalArgumentException

Checks whether the value associated with a key in a key property is a pattern.

Checks whether the value associated with a key in a key
property is a pattern.
Returns: True if the value associated with the given key property is a pattern, otherwise false.
Parameters:
- property - The property whose value is to be checked.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If property is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - If property is not a valid key property for this ObjectName.
Since: 1.6

publicstatic String quote (String s) throws NullPointerException

Returns a quoted form of the given String, suitable for inclusion in an ObjectName.

Returns a quoted form of the given String, suitable for inclusion in an ObjectName. The returned value can be used as the value associated with a key in an ObjectName. The String s may contain any character. Appropriate quoting ensures that the returned value is legal in an ObjectName.

The returned value consists of a quote ('"'), a sequence of characters corresponding to the characters of s, and another quote. Characters in s appear unchanged within the returned value except:

A quote ('"') is replaced by a backslash (\) followed by a quote.
An asterisk ('*') is replaced by a backslash (\) followed by an asterisk.
A question mark ('?') is replaced by a backslash (\) followed by a question mark.
A backslash ('\') is replaced by two backslashes.
A newline character (the character '\n' in Java) is replaced by a backslash followed by the character '\n'.

Returns: the quoted String.
Parameters:
- s - the String to be quoted.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if s is null.

public void setMBeanServer (MBeanServer mbs) [Specified in QueryExp]

public String toString ()

Returns a string representation of the object name.

publicstatic String unquote (String q) throws IllegalArgumentException NullPointerException

Returns an unquoted form of the given String.

Returns an unquoted form of the given String. If q is a String returned by quote(s), then unquote(q).equals(s). If there is no String s for which quote(s).equals(q), then unquote(q) throws an IllegalArgumentException.

These rules imply that there is a one-to-one mapping between quoted and unquoted forms.

Returns: the unquoted String.
Parameters:
- q - the String to be unquoted.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if q could not have been returned by the {@link #quote} method, for instance if it does not begin and end with a quote (").
- NullPointerException - if q is null.