Package org.jivesoftware.admin

Class JSTLFunctions

java.lang.Object

org.jivesoftware.admin.JSTLFunctions

public class JSTLFunctions
extends Object

Utility functions that are exposed through a taglib.

Author:

Guus der Kinderen

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
JSTLFunctions()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	byteFormat(long bytes)	A formatter for formatting byte sizes.
static String	escapeHTMLTags(String string)	This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences.
static String	replaceAll(String string, String regex, String replacement)	JSTL delegate for String.replaceAll(String, String).
static String[]	split(String string, String regex)	JSTL delegate for String.split(String).
static String	urlDecode(String string)	Decodes a application/x-www-form-urlencoded string using the UTF-8 encoding scheme.
static String	urlEncode(String string)	Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

JSTLFunctions

public JSTLFunctions()

Method Detail

replaceAll

public static String replaceAll(String string,
                                String regex,
                                String replacement)

JSTL delegate for String.replaceAll(String, String). The first argument is the value on which the replacement has to occur. The other arguments are passed to String.replaceAll(String, String) directly.

Parameters:

string - The string to search

regex - the regular expression to which this string is to be matched

replacement - the string to be substituted for each match

Returns:

the updated string

See Also:

String.replaceAll(String, String)

split

public static String[] split(String string,
                             String regex)

JSTL delegate for String.split(String). The first argument is the value on which the replacement has to occur. The other argument is used as the argument for the invocation of String.split(String).

Parameters:

string - The string to split

regex - the delimiting regular expression

Returns:

the the array of strings computed by splitting this string around matches of the given regular expression

See Also:

String.split(String)

byteFormat

public static String byteFormat(long bytes)

A formatter for formatting byte sizes. For example, formatting 12345 byes results in "12.1 K" and 1234567 results in "1.18 MB".

Parameters:

bytes - the number of bytes

Returns:

the number of bytes in terms of KB, MB, etc.

See Also:

ByteFormat

urlEncode

public static String urlEncode(String string)

Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme. This method uses the UTF-8 encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

Parameters:

string - the URL to encode

Returns:

the encoded URL

See Also:

URLEncoder

urlDecode

public static String urlDecode(String string)

Decodes a application/x-www-form-urlencoded string using the UTF-8 encoding scheme. The encoding is used to determine what characters are represented by any consecutive sequences of the form "%xy".

Parameters:

string - the String to encode

Returns:

the encoded string

See Also:

URLDecoder

escapeHTMLTags

public static String escapeHTMLTags(String string)

This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences. It will also replace LF with <br>.

Parameters:

string - the String to escape

Returns:

the escaped string

See Also:

StringUtils.escapeHTMLTags(String)