public boolean matches()

in ch-commons-xbean/src/main/java/com/cloudhopper/commons/xml/XPath.java [86:113]

• 21 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public boolean matches(String xpath, boolean includeParent) {
        if (xpath == null || xpath.equals("")) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("xpath cannot be null or empty");
        }

        // make sure xpath doesn't end with an /
        if (xpath.endsWith("/")) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Should not end with /");
        }

        // the xpath might be a parent path
        if (includeParent && normalizedXPath.startsWith(xpath+"/")) {
            return true;
        }

        // otherwise, either this is an exact match or a child of a previous match
        if (xpath.startsWith(normalizedXPath)) {
            // if lengths are equal, then its a perfect match
            if (xpath.length() == normalizedXPath.length()) {
                return true;
            } else if (includeChildren) {
                return true;
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }