com.bazaarvoice.jolt.common.reference

Interface PathReference

All Known Subinterfaces:

PathAndGroupReference

All Known Implementing Classes:

AmpReference, BasePathAndGroupReference, BasePathReference, DollarReference, HashReference

public interface PathReference

Reference is used by Shiftr when lookup up values from a WalkedPath (list of LiteralPathElements). #, #0 are the same The "canonical form" is "Cx", where : C : the character used to determine the type of Reference x : pathIndex : which is how far up the walkedPath the look

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getCanonicalForm() Get the canonical form of this Reference.
int	getPathIndex()

Method Detail

getPathIndex

int getPathIndex()

getCanonicalForm

String getCanonicalForm()

Get the canonical form of this Reference. One of the uses of this method is to ensure that spec, does not contain "duplicate" keys, aka two keys that when you unroll the syntactic sugar, are the same thing.

Returns:

fully expanded String representation of this Reference