PatternMatcher (Apache Shiro :: Core 1.7.1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AntPathMatcher, RegExPatternMatcher
```
public interface PatternMatcher
```
Interface for components that can match source strings against a specified pattern string.
Different implementations can support different pattern types, for example, Ant style path expressions, or regular expressions, or other types of text based patterns.

Since:

0.9 RC2

See Also:

AntPathMatcher

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`pattern, source)`	Returns `true` if the given `source` matches the specified `pattern`, `false` otherwise.

- Method Detail
  - matches
```
boolean matches( pattern,
                 source)
```
    Returns true if the given source matches the specified pattern, false otherwise.
    
    Parameters:
    
    pattern - the pattern to match against
    
    source - the source to match
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the given source matches the specified pattern, false otherwise.