override the method WildcardPattern.toString()

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPattern.java b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPattern.java
index 572d2c1d01b..2aa913e1929 100644
--- a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPattern.java
+++ b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPattern.java
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ public class WildcardPattern {
   private static final Map<String, WildcardPattern> patterns = new HashMap<String, WildcardPattern>();
 
   private Pattern pattern;
+  private String stringRepresentation;
 
   protected WildcardPattern(String pattern, String directorySeparator) {
+    this.stringRepresentation = pattern;
     this.pattern = Pattern.compile(toRegexp(pattern, directorySeparator));
   }
 
@@ -81,6 +83,14 @@ public class WildcardPattern {
   }
 
   /**
+   * This method is overridden since version 2.5-RC2.
+   */
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return stringRepresentation;
+  }
+
+  /**
    * @since 2.4
    */
   public static boolean match(WildcardPattern[] patterns, String value) {
diff --git a/sonar-plugin-api/src/test/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPatternTest.java b/sonar-plugin-api/src/test/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPatternTest.java
index f57aff8f6e2..970544c7152 100644
--- a/sonar-plugin-api/src/test/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPatternTest.java
+++ b/sonar-plugin-api/src/test/java/org/sonar/api/utils/WildcardPatternTest.java
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ package org.sonar.api.utils;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 public class WildcardPatternTest {
@@ -107,4 +109,9 @@ public class WildcardPatternTest {
     assertTrue(WildcardPattern.match(patterns, "Bar"));
     assertFalse(WildcardPattern.match(patterns, "Other"));
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testToString() {
+    assertThat(WildcardPattern.create("foo*").toString(), is("foo*"));
+  }
 }