Class CommentNodeRemove

  • public class CommentNodeRemove
extends java.lang.Object
    CommentNodePoll 🠞
    1. CommentNode: This implies that TagNode and TextNode elements are ignored completely in this search, and instead, the "comments" between the <!-- and --> symbols - which are all instances of CommentNode, are searched.

    2. Remove: This implies that node matches are removed from the underlying input-Vector. This method will return a total count of the number of nodes removed.
    Finds and removes HTML Comments from an HTML-Vector that match a user-provided search-criteria specified with a String-Predicate, Regular-Expression or TextComparitor. These methods in this class return a count (as an integer) stating how many nodes where removed.

    Methods Available

    Method Explanation
    first (...) This will remove the first matching CommentNode found, out of the vectorized-page parameter 'html'.
    nth (...) This will remove the nth matching CommentNode found, out of the vectorized-page parameter 'html'.
    last (...) This will remove the last matching CommentNode found, out of the vectorized-page parameter 'html'.
    nthFromEnd (...) This will remove the nth-from-last matching CommentNode found, out of the vectorized-page parameter 'html'.
    all (...) This will remove every CommentNode that matches the specified search-criteria found inside the vectorized-page parameter 'html'

    Method Parameters

    Parameter Explanation
    Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html This represents any vectorized HTML page, sub-page, or list of partial-elements.
    int nth This represents the 'nth' match of a comparison for-loop. When the method-signature used includes the parameter 'nth' , the first n-1 matches that are found - will be skipped, and the 'nth' match is, instead, returned.

    EXCEPTIONS: An NException shall throw if the value of parameter 'nth' is zero, negative, or larger than the size of the input html-Vector.
    int sPos, int ePos When these parameters are present, only HTMLNode's that are found between the specified Vector indices will be considered for matching with the search criteria.

    NOTE: In every situation where the parameters int sPos, int ePos are used, parameter 'ePos' will accept a negative value, but parameter 'sPos' will not. When 'ePos' is passed a negative-value, the internal LV ('Loop Variable Counter') will have its public final int end field set to the length of the vectorized-html page that was passed. (html.size() of parameter Vector<HTMLNode> html).

    EXCEPTIONS: An IndexOutOfBoundsException will be thrown if:

    • If sPos is negative, or if sPos is greater-than or equal-to the size of the input Vector
    • If ePos is zero, or greater than the size of the input Vector.
    • If sPos is a larger integer than ePos
    TextComparitor tc WORKS WITH: This parameter utilizes / works-with parameter String... compareStr to perform the requested comparisons. The comparisons are computed using the String 'body' field of a CommentNode.

    When this parameter is present in the method-signature parameter-list, the decision of whether a CommentNode is to be included in the search result-set is defined by this parameter's FunctionalInterface Predicate 'test' method. TextComparitor is a Java BiPredicate<String, String[]> which compares its first String-parameter against the String's in its second.
    Pattern p These parameters reference Java's "Regular Expression" processing engine. If the method-signature includes the java.util.regex.Pattern parameter, the search-loops will use the standard Regular-Expression Pattern matching routine: p.asPredicate().test(comment_node.body) when deciding which CommentNode's "match" this search-criteria.
    Predicate<String> p When this parameter is present in the method-signature parameter-list, the decision of whether a CommentNode is to be included in the search result-set are made by the results of the Java Predicate.test(String) method.

    Specifically: p.test(comment_node.body)
    String... compareStr WORKS WITH: This parameter works in coordination with the TextComparitor tc parameter. This parameter supplies the String's with which the comparisons of the CommentNode.body field may be compared.

    Return Values:

    1. int reveals exactly how many CommentNode's were successfully removed from the html vectorized-page parameter 'html'



    Stateless Class:
    This class neither contains any program-state, nor can it be instantiated. The @StaticFunctional Annotation may also be called 'The Spaghetti Report'. Static-Functional classes are, essentially, C-Styled Files, without any constructors or non-static member fields. It is a concept very similar to the Java-Bean's @Stateless Annotation.

    • 1 Constructor(s), 1 declared private, zero-argument constructor
    • 36 Method(s), 36 declared static
    • 0 Field(s)


    • Method Summary

       
      All Matches
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Predicate<String> p)
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Pattern p)
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      All Matches, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int all​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      All Non-Matches
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Predicate<String> p)
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Pattern p)
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      All Non-Matches, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int allExcept​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      First Match
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Predicate<String> p)
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Pattern p)
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      First Match, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int first​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Last Match
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Predicate<String> p)
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, Pattern p)
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Last Match, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int last​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Nth Match
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, Predicate<String> p)
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, Pattern p)
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Nth Match, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int nth​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Nth Match From End
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, Predicate<String> p)
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, Pattern p)
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)
       
      Nth Match From End, Range Limited
      Modifier and Type Method
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, Predicate<String> p)
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, Pattern p)
      static int nthFromEnd​(Vector<? extends HTMLNode> html, int nth, int sPos, int ePos, TextComparitor tc, String... compareStr)

      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait