001/* FilenameFilter.java -- Filter a list of filenames 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.io; 040 041/* Written using "Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-31002-3 042 * "The Java Language Specification", ISBN 0-201-63451-1 043 * Status: Complete to 1.1. 044 */ 045 046/** 047 * This interface has one method which is used for filtering filenames 048 * returned in a directory listing. It is currently used by the 049 * <code>File.list(FilenameFilter)</code> method and by the filename 050 * dialog in AWT. 051 * <p> 052 * The method in this interface determines if a particular file should 053 * or should not be included in the file listing. 054 * 055 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) 056 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@cygnus.com) 057 * 058 * @see File#listFiles(java.io.FilenameFilter) 059 * @see java.awt.FileDialog#setFilenameFilter(java.io.FilenameFilter) 060 */ 061public interface FilenameFilter 062{ 063 /** 064 * This method determines whether or not a given file should be included 065 * in a directory listing. 066 * 067 * @param dir The <code>File</code> instance for the directory being read 068 * @param name The name of the file to test 069 * 070 * @return <code>true</code> if the file should be included in the list, 071 * <code>false</code> otherwise. 072 */ 073 boolean accept(File dir, String name); 074 075} // interface FilenameFilter