Module java.desktop
Package javax.swing.text

# Class DocumentFilter

java.lang.Object
javax.swing.text.DocumentFilter

public class DocumentFilter extends Object
`DocumentFilter`, as the name implies, is a filter for the `Document` mutation methods. When a `Document` containing a `DocumentFilter` is modified (either through `insert` or `remove`), it forwards the appropriate method invocation to the `DocumentFilter`. The default implementation allows the modification to occur. Subclasses can filter the modifications by conditionally invoking methods on the superclass, or invoking the necessary methods on the passed in `FilterBypass`. Subclasses should NOT call back into the Document for the modification instead call into the superclass or the `FilterBypass`.

When `remove` or `insertString` is invoked on the `DocumentFilter`, the `DocumentFilter` may callback into the `FilterBypass` multiple times, or for different regions, but it should not callback into the `FilterBypass` after returning from the `remove` or `insertString` method.

By default, text related document mutation methods such as `insertString`, `replace` and `remove` in `AbstractDocument` use `DocumentFilter` when available, and `Element` related mutation methods such as `create`, `insert` and `removeElement` in `DefaultStyledDocument` do not use `DocumentFilter`. If a method doesn't follow these defaults, this must be explicitly stated in the method documentation.

Since:
  1.4
See Also:
  - `Document`
  - `AbstractDocument`
  - `DefaultStyledDocument`

## Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`static class`
`DocumentFilter.FilterBypass`
Used as a way to circumvent calling back into the Document to change it.

## Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor
Description
`DocumentFilter()`
Constructs a `DocumentFilter`.

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`void`
`insertString(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, String string, AttributeSet attr)`
Invoked prior to insertion of text into the specified Document.
`void`
`remove(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length)`
Invoked prior to removal of the specified region in the specified Document.
`void`
`replace(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text, AttributeSet attrs)`
Invoked prior to replacing a region of text in the specified Document.

### Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

## Constructor Details

### DocumentFilter

public DocumentFilter()
Constructs a `DocumentFilter`.

## Method Details

### remove

public void remove(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length) throws BadLocationException
Invoked prior to removal of the specified region in the specified Document. Subclasses that want to conditionally allow removal should override this and only call supers implementation as necessary, or call directly into the `FilterBypass` as necessary.

Parameters:
  `fb` - FilterBypass that can be used to mutate Document
  `offset` - the offset from the beginning >= 0
  `length` - the number of characters to remove >= 0
Throws:
  `BadLocationException` - some portion of the removal range was not a valid part of the document. The location in the exception is the first bad position encountered.

### insertString

public void insertString(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, String string, AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException
Invoked prior to insertion of text into the specified Document. Subclasses that want to conditionally allow insertion should override this and only call supers implementation as necessary, or call directly into the FilterBypass.

Parameters:
  `fb` - FilterBypass that can be used to mutate Document
  `offset` - the offset into the document to insert the content >= 0. All positions that track change at or after the given location will move.
  `string` - the string to insert
  `attr` - the attributes to associate with the inserted content. This may be null if there are no attributes.
Throws:
  `BadLocationException` - the given insert position is not a valid position within the document

### replace

public void replace(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text, AttributeSet attrs) throws BadLocationException
Invoked prior to replacing a region of text in the specified Document. Subclasses that want to conditionally allow replace should override this and only call supers implementation as necessary, or call directly into the FilterBypass.

Parameters:
  `fb` - FilterBypass that can be used to mutate Document
  `offset` - Location in Document
  `length` - Length of text to delete
  `text` - Text to insert, null indicates no text to insert
  `attrs` - AttributeSet indicating attributes of inserted text, null is legal.
Throws:
  `BadLocationException` - the given insert position is not a valid position within the document