Java tutorial
/* * Copyright (c) 1999, 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package javax.naming; /** * This interface is used for parsing names from a hierarchical * namespace. The NameParser contains knowledge of the syntactic * information (like left-to-right orientation, name separator, etc.) * needed to parse names. * * The equals() method, when used to compare two NameParsers, returns * true if and only if they serve the same namespace. * * @author Rosanna Lee * @author Scott Seligman * * @see CompoundName * @see Name * @since 1.3 */ public interface NameParser { /** * Parses a name into its components. * * @param name The non-null string name to parse. * @return A non-null parsed form of the name using the naming convention * of this parser. * @exception InvalidNameException If name does not conform to * syntax defined for the namespace. * @exception NamingException If a naming exception was encountered. */ Name parse(String name) throws NamingException; }