src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/FindReplace.java

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package com.google.gwtexpui.safehtml.client;

import com.google.gwt.regexp.shared.RegExp;

/** A Find/Replace pair used against the {@link SafeHtml} block of text. */
public interface FindReplace {
  /**
   * @return regular expression to match substrings with; should be treated as
   *     immutable.
   */
  public RegExp pattern();

  /**
   * Find and replace a single instance of this pattern in an input.
   * <p>
   * <b>WARNING:</b> No XSS sanitization is done on the return value of this
   * method, e.g. this value may be passed directly to
   * {@link SafeHtml#replaceAll(String, String)}. Implementations must sanitize output
   * appropriately.
   *
   * @param input input string.
   * @return result of regular expression replacement.
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the input could not be safely sanitized.
   */
  public String replace(String input);
}