uk.co.strangeskies.text.properties

Annotation Type Delimit

@Retention(value=SOURCE)
 @Target(value=TYPE_USE)
public @interface Delimit

An annotation for properties of types such as List to specify how elements should be delimited by the parser.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
boolean	eager Whether list element delimiting is eager or lazy.
boolean	ignoreWhitespace
java.lang.String	value

Element Detail

value

public abstract java.lang.String value

Returns:

the delimiter string

Default:

","

eager

public abstract boolean eager

Whether list element delimiting is eager or lazy. And eager strategy will split the string by the delimiter before parsing the elements, whereas a lazy strategy will attempt to parse an element over the entire input string, then look for the delimiter after a match is found.

Returns:

true for an eager delimiting strategy, false otherwise

Default:

true

ignoreWhitespace

public abstract boolean ignoreWhitespace

Returns:

true to trim whitespace between elements, false otherwise

Default:

true