jforum example source code file (URLNormalizer.java)

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The jforum URLNormalizer.java source code

/*
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 * Created on 11/07/2005 00:32:01
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package net.jforum.util;

/**
 * Normalizes an URL. 
 * Normalization means replacing blank spaces by underlines, 
 * changing special chars by its regular form and etc.
 * @author Rafael Steil
 * @version $Id: URLNormalizer.java,v 1.4 2006/08/20 22:47:42 rafaelsteil Exp $
 */
public class URLNormalizer
{
	public static final int LIMIT = 30;
	
	/**
	 * Normalizes an URL.
	 * The url will be truncated at {@link #LIMIT} chars
	 * @param url the url to normalize
	 * @return the normalized url
	 * @see #normalize(String, int, boolean)
	 */
	public static String normalize(String url)
	{
		return normalize(url, LIMIT, true);
	}
	
	/**
	 * 
	 * @param url the url to normalize
	 * @param limit do not process more than <code>limit + 1 chars
	 * @param friendlyTruncate If <code>true, will try to not cut a word if
	 * more than <code>limit chars were processed. It will stop in the next
	 * special char
	 * @return the normalized url
	 */
	public static String normalize(String url, int limit, boolean friendlyTruncate)
	{
		char[] chars = url.toCharArray();
		
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(url.length());
		
		for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
			if (i <= limit || (friendlyTruncate && i > limit && sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) != '_')) {
				
				if (Character.isSpaceChar(chars[i]) || chars[i] == '-') {
					if (friendlyTruncate && i > limit) {
						break;
					}
					
					if (i > 0 && sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) != '_') {
						sb.append('_');
					}
				}
				
				if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(chars[i])) {
					sb.append(chars[i]);
				}
				else if (friendlyTruncate && i > limit) {
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		
		return sb.toString().toLowerCase();
	}
}