javax.mail.search
Class MessageIDTerm

java.lang.Object
  javax.mail.search.SearchTerm
      javax.mail.search.StringTerm
          javax.mail.search.MessageIDTerm

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public final class MessageIDTerm
extends StringTerm

This term models the RFC822 "MessageId" - a message-id for Internet messages that is supposed to be unique per message. Clients can use this term to search a folder for a message given its MessageId.

The MessageId is represented as a String.

Author:

Bill Shannon, John Mani

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class javax.mail.search.StringTerm

ignoreCase, pattern

Constructor Summary

MessageIDTerm(String msgid)
Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Equality comparison.
boolean	match(Message msg) The match method.

Methods inherited from class javax.mail.search.StringTerm

getIgnoreCase, getPattern, hashCode, match

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MessageIDTerm

public MessageIDTerm(String msgid)

Constructor.

Parameters:

msgid - the msgid to search for

Method Detail

match

public boolean match(Message msg)

The match method.

Specified by:

match in class SearchTerm

Parameters:

msg - the match is applied to this Message's Message-ID header

Returns:

true if the match succeeds, otherwise false

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Equality comparison.

Overrides:

equals in class StringTerm