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Custom pseudo classes and functions

Custom pseudo-class

Custom pseudo-classes extends the PseudoClass and implements match(Node node). This method should return true if a node is matched. You may also override the method getPseudoClassName() if you don't want to generate a pseudo-class name from the class name. For example:
public class MyPseudoClass extends PseudoClass {
@Override
public boolean match(Node node) {
return node.hasAttribute("jodd-attr");
}
@Override
public String getPseudoClassName() {
return "jodd";
}
}
Then register your pseudo-class with:
PseudoClassSelector.registerPseudoClass(MyPseudoClass.class);
From that moment you will be able to find all nodes with the attribute jodd-attr using the :jodd pseudo-class.
When a pseudo-class needs to perform an additional match in the range of matched nodes (e.g. first, last etc), then override matchInRange() method, too.

Custom pseudo-function

Similar to pseudo-classes, custom pseudo-function implements the PseudoFunction class. Additionally, you need to also implement a method that parses input expression. This expression is later passed to the matching method.
Let's make a function that matches all nodes with certain name length:
public class MyPseudoFunction extends PseudoFunction {
@Override
public Object parseExpression(String expression) {
return Integer.valueOf(expression);
}
@Override
public boolean match(Node node, Object expression) {
Integer size = (Integer) expression;
return node.getNodeName().length() == size.intValue();
}
@Override
public String getPseudoFunctionName() {
return "len-fn";
}
}
Register it with:
PseudoFunctionSelector.registerPseudoFunction(MyPseudoFunction.class);
Start using it! E.g. :len-fn(3) to match all nodes with short names:)
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