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package ognl;
/**
* This class has predefined instances that stand for OGNL's special "dynamic subscripts"
* for getting at the first, middle, or last elements of a list. In OGNL expressions,
* these subscripts look like special kinds of array indexes: [^] means the first element,
* [$] means the last, [|] means the middle, and [*] means the whole list.
* @author Luke Blanshard ([email protected])
* @author Drew Davidson ([email protected])
*/
public class DynamicSubscript
{
public static final int FIRST = 0;
public static final int MID = 1;
public static final int LAST = 2;
public static final int ALL = 3;
public static final DynamicSubscript first = new DynamicSubscript(FIRST);
public static final DynamicSubscript mid = new DynamicSubscript(MID);
public static final DynamicSubscript last = new DynamicSubscript(LAST);
public static final DynamicSubscript all = new DynamicSubscript(ALL);
private int flag;
private DynamicSubscript( int flag )
{
this.flag = flag;
}
public int getFlag()
{
return flag;
}
public String toString()
{
switch (flag)
{
case FIRST: return "^";
case MID: return "|";
case LAST: return "$";
case ALL: return "*";
default: return "?"; // Won't happen
}
}
}