org.sakaiproject.citation.impl.openurl

Class Utils

java.lang.Object

org.sakaiproject.citation.impl.openurl.Utils

public class Utils
extends Object

Supporting static utilities for the OpenURL code.

Author:

buckett

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Utils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	appendFirst(StringBuilder buffer, List<String> values, String seperator) Simple utility function for adding the first value of the list of strings to the buffer.
static Map<String,String[]>	decode(Map<String,String[]> source, String encoding) Decode all the keys and values based on the encoding.
static String	getValue(Map<String,String[]> params, String key) Just gets the first value for the key out of the map.
static String	lookForAuthor(Map<String,List<String>> values) Attempts to extract the author from the multiple fields in an OpenURL and return an author string.
static Map<String,String[]>	split(String source) This splits the source string up into a map.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Utils

public Utils()

Method Detail

getValue

public static String getValue(Map<String,String[]> params,
                              String key)

Just gets the first value for the key out of the map.

Parameters:

params -

key -

Returns:

The value or null if it isn't found or is null.

split

public static Map<String,String[]> split(String source)

This splits the source string up into a map. Similar to the servlet request parsing but we don't decode it yet, until we know the encoding we should use.

Returns:

Always returns a Map of the values.

decode

public static Map<String,String[]> decode(Map<String,String[]> source,
                                          String encoding)

Decode all the keys and values based on the encoding.

lookForAuthor

public static String lookForAuthor(Map<String,List<String>> values)

Attempts to extract the author from the multiple fields in an OpenURL and return an author string.

Returns:

Author string, such as John Smith.

appendFirst

public static boolean appendFirst(StringBuilder buffer,
                                  List<String> values,
                                  String seperator)

Simple utility function for adding the first value of the list of strings to the buffer.

Parameters:

buffer -

values -

seperator -