comparison artifacts-common/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/common/utils/StringUtils.java @ 301:b0a949d3fe09

Moved StringUtils to common package. Added some Override annotations. artifacts/trunk@2394 c6561f87-3c4e-4783-a992-168aeb5c3f6f
author Sascha L. Teichmann <sascha.teichmann@intevation.de>
date Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:36:04 +0000
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1 /*
2 * Copyright (c) 2010 by Intevation GmbH
3 *
4 * This program is free software under the LGPL (>=v2.1)
5 * Read the file LGPL.txt coming with the software for details
6 * or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ if it does not exist.
7 */
8
9 package de.intevation.artifacts.common.utils;
10
11 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
12
13 import java.util.UUID;
14
15 import org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException;
16
17 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
18
19 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
20
21 /**
22 * Commonly used string functions.
23 *
24 * @author <a href="mailto:sascha.teichmann@intevation.de">Sascha L. Teichmann</a>
25 */
26 public final class StringUtils
27 {
28 private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(StringUtils.class);
29
30 /**
31 * Generated a random UUIDv4 in form of a string.
32 * @return the UUID
33 */
34 public static final String newUUID() {
35 return UUID.randomUUID().toString();
36 }
37
38 /**
39 * Checks if a given string is a valid UUID.
40 * @param uuid The string to test.
41 * @return true if the string is a valid UUID else false.
42 */
43 public static final boolean checkUUID(String uuid) {
44 try {
45 UUID.fromString(uuid);
46 }
47 catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {
48 logger.warn(iae.getLocalizedMessage());
49 return false;
50 }
51 return true;
52 }
53
54 /**
55 * Returns the UTF-8 byte array representation of a given string.
56 * @param s The string to be transformed.
57 * @return The byte array representation.
58 */
59 public static final byte [] getUTF8Bytes(String s) {
60 try {
61 return s.getBytes("UTF-8");
62 }
63 catch (UnsupportedEncodingException usee) {
64 logger.error(usee.getLocalizedMessage(), usee);
65 return s.getBytes();
66 }
67 }
68
69 /**
70 * Tries to convert a Base64 encoded string into the
71 * corresponing byte array.
72 * @param s The Base64 encoded string
73 * @return The byte array representation or null if
74 * an decoding error occurs.
75 */
76 public static final byte [] decodeHex(String s) {
77 try {
78 return Hex.decodeHex(s.toCharArray());
79 }
80 catch (DecoderException de) {
81 return null;
82 }
83 }
84
85 public static final String repeat(String s, int count, String sep) {
86 if (count <= 0) {
87 return "";
88 }
89 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s);
90 for (--count; count > 0; --count) {
91 sb.append(sep).append(s);
92 }
93 return sb.toString();
94 }
95
96 public static final String repeat(char c, int count, char sep) {
97 if (count <= 0) {
98 return "";
99 }
100 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(2*count-1).append(c);
101 for (--count; count > 0; --count) {
102 sb.append(sep).append(c);
103 }
104 return sb.toString();
105 }
106 }
107 // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :

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