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/**
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Ovea 
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.ovea.tadjin.util;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

/**
 * Simple utility class for String operations useful across the tadjin.
 * 

 * Some methods in this class were copied from the Spring Framework so we didn't have to re-invent the wheel,
 * and in these cases, we have retained all license, copyright and author information.
 *
 * @since 0.9
 */
public class StringUtils {

    /**
     * Constant representing the empty string, equal to ""
     */
    public static final String EMPTY_STRING = "";

    /**
     * Constant representing the default delimiter character (comma), equal to ','
     */
    public static final char DEFAULT_DELIMITER_CHAR = ',';

    /**
     * Constant representing the default quote character (double quote), equal to '"'
     */
    public static final char DEFAULT_QUOTE_CHAR = '"';

    /**
     * Check whether the given String has actual text.
     * More specifically, returns true if the string not null,
     * its length is greater than 0, and it contains at least one non-whitespace character.
     * 

     * StringUtils.hasText(null) == false

     * StringUtils.hasText("") == false

     * StringUtils.hasText(" ") == false

     * StringUtils.hasText("12345") == true

     * StringUtils.hasText(" 12345 ") == true
     * 

     * 
Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param str the String to check (may be null)
     * @return true if the String is not null, its length is
     *         greater than 0, and it does not contain whitespace only
     * @see Character#isWhitespace
     */
    public static boolean hasText(String str) {
        if (!hasLength(str)) {
            return false;
        }
        int strLen = str.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < strLen; i++) {
            if (!Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i))) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Check that the given String is neither null nor of length 0.
     * Note: Will return true for a String that purely consists of whitespace.
     * 

     * StringUtils.hasLength(null) == false

     * StringUtils.hasLength("") == false

     * StringUtils.hasLength(" ") == true

     * StringUtils.hasLength("Hello") == true
     * 

     * Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param str the String to check (may be null)
     * @return true if the String is not null and has length
     * @see #hasText(String)
     */
    public static boolean hasLength(String str) {
        return (str != null && str.length() > 0);
    }


    /**
     * Test if the given String starts with the specified prefix,
     * ignoring upper/lower case.
     * 

     * 
Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param str    the String to check
     * @param prefix the prefix to look for
     * @return true starts with the specified prefix (ignoring case), false if it does not.
     * @see String#startsWith
     */
    public static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(String str, String prefix) {
        if (str == null || prefix == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (str.startsWith(prefix)) {
            return true;
        }
        if (str.length() < prefix.length()) {
            return false;
        }
        String lcStr = str.substring(0, prefix.length()).toLowerCase();
        String lcPrefix = prefix.toLowerCase();
        return lcStr.equals(lcPrefix);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a 'cleaned' representation of the specified argument.  'Cleaned' is defined as the following:
     * 

     * 

     * If the specified String is null, return null
     * If not null, {@link String#trim() trim()} it.
     * If the trimmed string is equal to the empty String (i.e. ""), return null
     * If the trimmed string is not the empty string, return the trimmed version.
     * 
     * 
     * Therefore this method always ensures that any given string has trimmed text, and if it doesn't, null
     * is returned.
     *
     * @param in the input String to clean.
     * @return a populated-but-trimmed String or null otherwise
     */
    public static String clean(String in) {
        String out = in;

        if (in != null) {
            out = in.trim();
            if (out.equals(EMPTY_STRING)) {
                out = null;
            }
        }

        return out;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the specified array as a comma-delimited (',') string.
     *
     * @param array the array whose contents will be converted to a string.
     * @return the array's contents as a comma-delimited (',') string.
     * @since 1.0
     */
    public static String toString(Object[] array) {
        return toDelimitedString(array, ",");
    }

    public static String toString(List array) {
        return toDelimitedString(array, ",");
    }

    /**
     * Returns the array's contents as a string, with each element delimited by the specified
     * {@code delimiter} argument.  Useful for {@code toString()} implementations and log messages.
     *
     * @param array     the array whose contents will be converted to a string
     * @param delimiter the delimiter to use between each element
     * @return a single string, delimited by the specified {@code delimiter}.
     * @since 1.0
     */
    public static String toDelimitedString(Object[] array, String delimiter) {
        if (array == null || array.length == 0) {
            return EMPTY_STRING;
        }
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            if (i > 0) {
                sb.append(delimiter);
            }
            sb.append(array[i]);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static String toDelimitedString(List array, String delimiter) {
        if (array == null || array.isEmpty()) {
            return EMPTY_STRING;
        }
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < array.size(); i++) {
            if (i > 0) {
                sb.append(delimiter);
            }
            sb.append(array.get(i));
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Tokenize the given String into a String array via a StringTokenizer.
     * Trims tokens and omits empty tokens.
     * 
The given delimiters string is supposed to consist of any number of
     * delimiter characters. Each of those characters can be used to separate
     * tokens. A delimiter is always a single character; for multi-character
     * delimiters, consider using delimitedListToStringArray
     * 

     * 
Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param str        the String to tokenize
     * @param delimiters the delimiter characters, assembled as String
     *                   (each of those characters is individually considered as delimiter).
     * @return an array of the tokens
     * @see java.util.StringTokenizer
     * @see String#trim()
     */
    public static String[] tokenizeToStringArray(String str, String delimiters) {
        return tokenizeToStringArray(str, delimiters, true, true);
    }

    /**
     * Tokenize the given String into a String array via a StringTokenizer.
     * 
The given delimiters string is supposed to consist of any number of
     * delimiter characters. Each of those characters can be used to separate
     * tokens. A delimiter is always a single character; for multi-character
     * delimiters, consider using delimitedListToStringArray
     * 

     * 
Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param str               the String to tokenize
     * @param delimiters        the delimiter characters, assembled as String
     *                          (each of those characters is individually considered as delimiter)
     * @param trimTokens        trim the tokens via String's trim
     * @param ignoreEmptyTokens omit empty tokens from the result array
     *                          (only applies to tokens that are empty after trimming; StringTokenizer
     *                          will not consider subsequent delimiters as token in the first place).
     * @return an array of the tokens (null if the input String
     *         was null)
     * @see java.util.StringTokenizer
     * @see String#trim()
     */
    @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})
    public static String[] tokenizeToStringArray(
            String str, String delimiters, boolean trimTokens, boolean ignoreEmptyTokens) {

        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str, delimiters);
        List tokens = new ArrayList();
        while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
            String token = st.nextToken();
            if (trimTokens) {
                token = token.trim();
            }
            if (!ignoreEmptyTokens || token.length() > 0) {
                tokens.add(token);
            }
        }
        return toStringArray(tokens);
    }

    /**
     * Copy the given Collection into a String array.
     * The Collection must contain String elements only.
     * 

     * 
Copied from the Spring Framework while retaining all license, copyright and author information.
     *
     * @param collection the Collection to copy
     * @return the String array (null if the passed-in
     *         Collection was null)
     */
    @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})
    public static String[] toStringArray(Collection collection) {
        if (collection == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return (String[]) collection.toArray(new String[collection.size()]);
    }

    public static String[] splitKeyValue(String aLine) throws ParseException {
        String line = clean(aLine);
        if (line == null) {
            return null;
        }
        String[] split = line.split(" ", 2);
        if (split.length != 2) {
            //fallback to checking for an equals sign
            split = line.split("=", 2);
            if (split.length != 2) {
                String msg = "Unable to determine Key/Value pair from line [" + line + "].  There is no space from " +
                        "which the split location could be determined.";
                throw new ParseException(msg, 0);
            }

        }

        split[0] = clean(split[0]);
        split[1] = clean(split[1]);
        if (split[1].startsWith("=")) {
            //they used spaces followed by an equals followed by zero or more spaces to split the key/value pair, so
            //remove the equals sign to result in only the key and values in the
            split[1] = clean(split[1].substring(1));
        }

        if (split[0] == null) {
            String msg = "No valid key could be found in line [" + line + "] to form a key/value pair.";
            throw new ParseException(msg, 0);
        }
        if (split[1] == null) {
            String msg = "No corresponding value could be found in line [" + line + "] for key [" + split[0] + "]";
            throw new ParseException(msg, 0);
        }

        return split;
    }

    public static String[] split(String line) {
        return split(line, DEFAULT_DELIMITER_CHAR);
    }

    public static String[] split(String line, char delimiter) {
        return split(line, delimiter, DEFAULT_QUOTE_CHAR);
    }

    public static String[] split(String line, char delimiter, char quoteChar) {
        return split(line, delimiter, quoteChar, quoteChar);
    }

    public static String[] split(String line, char delimiter, char beginQuoteChar, char endQuoteChar) {
        return split(line, delimiter, beginQuoteChar, endQuoteChar, false, true);
    }

    /**
     * Splits the specified delimited String into tokens, supporting quoted tokens so that quoted strings themselves
     * won't be tokenized.
     * 

     * 
This method's implementation is very loosely based (with significant modifications) on
     * Glen Smith's open-source
     * CSVReader.java
     * file.
     * 

     * 
That file is Apache 2.0 licensed as well, making Glen's code a great starting point for us to modify to
     * our needs.
     *
     * @param aLine          the String to parse
     * @param delimiter      the delimiter by which the line argument is to be split
     * @param beginQuoteChar the character signifying the start of quoted text (so the quoted text will not be split)
     * @param endQuoteChar   the character signifying the end of quoted text
     * @param retainQuotes   if the quotes themselves should be retained when constructing the corresponding token
     * @param trimTokens     if leading and trailing whitespace should be trimmed from discovered tokens.
     * @return the tokens discovered from parsing the given delimited line.
     */
    public static String[] split(String aLine, char delimiter, char beginQuoteChar, char endQuoteChar,
                                 boolean retainQuotes, boolean trimTokens) {
        String line = clean(aLine);
        if (line == null) {
            return null;
        }

        List tokens = new ArrayList();
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        boolean inQuotes = false;

        for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {

            char c = line.charAt(i);
            if (c == beginQuoteChar) {
                // this gets complex... the quote may end a quoted block, or escape another quote.
                // do a 1-char lookahead:
                if (inQuotes  // we are in quotes, therefore there can be escaped quotes in here.
                        && line.length() > (i + 1)  // there is indeed another character to check.
                        && line.charAt(i + 1) == beginQuoteChar) { // ..and that char. is a quote also.
                    // we have two quote chars in a row == one quote char, so consume them both and
                    // put one on the token. we do *not* exit the quoted text.
                    sb.append(line.charAt(i + 1));
                    i++;
                } else {
                    inQuotes = !inQuotes;
                    if (retainQuotes) {
                        sb.append(c);
                    }
                }
            } else if (c == endQuoteChar) {
                inQuotes = !inQuotes;
                if (retainQuotes) {
                    sb.append(c);
                }
            } else if (c == delimiter && !inQuotes) {
                String s = sb.toString();
                if (trimTokens) {
                    s = s.trim();
                }
                tokens.add(s);
                sb = new StringBuffer(); // start work on next token
            } else {
                sb.append(c);
            }
        }
        String s = sb.toString();
        if (trimTokens) {
            s = s.trim();
        }
        tokens.add(s);
        return tokens.toArray(new String[tokens.size()]);
    }

}