java.lang.Object
- org.apache.jackrabbit.util.Text

```
public class Text
extends java.lang.Object
```
This Class provides some text related utilities

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static char[]`	`hexTable`	used for the md5
`static java.util.BitSet`	`URISave`	The list of characters that are not encoded by the `escape()` and `unescape()` METHODS.
`static java.util.BitSet`	`URISaveEx`	Same as `URISave` but also contains the '/'

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`static java.lang.String`	`digest(java.lang.String algorithm, byte[] data)`	Digest the plain string using the given algorithm.
`static java.lang.String`	`digest(java.lang.String algorithm, java.lang.String data, java.lang.String enc)`	Digest the plain string using the given algorithm.
`static java.lang.String`	`encodeIllegalHTMLCharacters(java.lang.String text)`	Replaces HTML characters in the given string that might need escaping as HTML text or attribute
`static java.lang.String`	`encodeIllegalXMLCharacters(java.lang.String text)`	Replaces XML characters in the given string that might need escaping as XML text or attribute
`static java.lang.String`	`escape(java.lang.String string)`	Does a URL encoding of the `string`.
`static java.lang.String`	`escape(java.lang.String string, char escape)`	Does an URL encoding of the `string` using the `escape` character.
`static java.lang.String`	`escape(java.lang.String string, char escape, boolean isPath)`	Does an URL encoding of the `string` using the `escape` character.
`static java.lang.String`	`escapeIllegalJcr10Chars(java.lang.String name)`	Escapes all illegal JCR 1.0 name characters of a string.
`static java.lang.String`	`escapeIllegalJcrChars(java.lang.String name)`	Escapes all illegal JCR name characters of a string.
`static java.lang.String`	`escapeIllegalXpathSearchChars(java.lang.String s)`	Escapes illegal XPath search characters at the end of a string.
`static java.lang.String`	`escapePath(java.lang.String path)`	Does a URL encoding of the `path`.
`static java.lang.String[]`	`explode(java.lang.String str, int ch)`	returns an array of strings decomposed of the original string, split at every occurrence of 'ch'.
`static java.lang.String[]`	`explode(java.lang.String str, int ch, boolean respectEmpty)`	returns an array of strings decomposed of the original string, split at every occurrence of 'ch'.
`static java.lang.String`	`getAbsoluteParent(java.lang.String path, int level)`	Returns the n^th absolute parent of the path, where n=level.
`static java.lang.String`	`getLocalName(java.lang.String qname)`	Returns the local name of the given `qname`.
`static java.lang.String`	`getName(java.lang.String path)`	Returns the name part of the path.
`static java.lang.String`	`getName(java.lang.String path, boolean ignoreTrailingSlash)`	Same as `getName(String)` but adding the possibility to pass paths that end with a trailing '/'
`static java.lang.String`	`getName(java.lang.String path, char delim)`	Returns the name part of the path, delimited by the given `delim`.
`static java.lang.String`	`getNamespacePrefix(java.lang.String qname)`	Returns the namespace prefix of the given `qname`.
`static java.lang.String`	`getRelativeParent(java.lang.String path, int level)`	Returns the n^th relative parent of the path, where n=level.
`static java.lang.String`	`getRelativeParent(java.lang.String path, int level, boolean ignoreTrailingSlash)`	Same as `getRelativeParent(String, int)` but adding the possibility to pass paths that end with a trailing '/'
`static java.lang.String`	`implode(java.lang.String[] arr, java.lang.String delim)`	Concatenates all strings in the string array using the specified delimiter.
`static boolean`	`isDescendant(java.lang.String path, java.lang.String descendant)`	Determines if the `descendant` path is hierarchical a descendant of `path`.
`static boolean`	`isDescendantOrEqual(java.lang.String path, java.lang.String descendant)`	Determines if the `descendant` path is hierarchical a descendant of `path` or equal to it.
`static boolean`	`isSibling(java.lang.String p1, java.lang.String p2)`	Determines, if two paths denote hierarchical siblins.
`static java.lang.String`	`md5(java.lang.String data)`	Calculate an MD5 hash of the string given using 'utf-8' encoding.
`static java.lang.String`	`md5(java.lang.String data, java.lang.String enc)`	Calculate an MD5 hash of the string given.
`static java.lang.String`	`replace(java.lang.String text, java.lang.String oldString, java.lang.String newString)`	Replaces all occurrences of `oldString` in `text` with `newString`.
`static java.lang.String`	`replaceVariables(java.util.Properties variables, java.lang.String value, boolean ignoreMissing)`	Performs variable replacement on the given string value.
`static java.lang.String`	`unescape(java.lang.String string)`	Does a URL decoding of the `string`.
`static java.lang.String`	`unescape(java.lang.String string, char escape)`	Does a URL decoding of the `string` using the `escape` character.
`static java.lang.String`	`unescapeIllegalJcrChars(java.lang.String name)`	Unescapes previously escaped jcr chars.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Field Detail
  - hexTable
```
public static final char[] hexTable
```
    used for the md5
  - URISave
```
public static java.util.BitSet URISave
```
    The list of characters that are not encoded by the escape() and unescape() METHODS. They contains the characters as defined 'unreserved' in section 2.3 of the RFC 2396 'URI generic syntax':
    
    unreserved = alphanum | mark mark = "-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")"
  - URISaveEx
```
public static java.util.BitSet URISaveEx
```
    Same as URISave but also contains the '/'
- Method Detail
  - md5
```
public static java.lang.String md5(java.lang.String data,
                                   java.lang.String enc)
                            throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException
```
    Calculate an MD5 hash of the string given.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the data to encode
    
    enc - the character encoding to use
    
    Returns:
    
    a hex encoded string of the md5 digested input
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException
  - md5
```
public static java.lang.String md5(java.lang.String data)
```
    Calculate an MD5 hash of the string given using 'utf-8' encoding.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the data to encode
    
    Returns:
    
    a hex encoded string of the md5 digested input
  - digest
```
public static java.lang.String digest(java.lang.String algorithm,
                                      java.lang.String data,
                                      java.lang.String enc)
                               throws java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException,
                                      java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException
```
    Digest the plain string using the given algorithm.
    
    Parameters:
    
    algorithm - The alogrithm for the digest. This algorithm must be supported by the MessageDigest class.
    
    data - The plain text String to be digested.
    
    enc - The character encoding to use
    
    Returns:
    
    The digested plain text String represented as Hex digits.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException - if the desired algorithm is not supported by the MessageDigest class.
    
    java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException - if the encoding is not supported
  - digest
```
public static java.lang.String digest(java.lang.String algorithm,
                                      byte[] data)
                               throws java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException
```
    Digest the plain string using the given algorithm.
    
    Parameters:
    
    algorithm - The algorithm for the digest. This algorithm must be supported by the MessageDigest class.
    
    data - the data to digest with the given algorithm
    
    Returns:
    
    The digested plain text String represented as Hex digits.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException - if the desired algorithm is not supported by the MessageDigest class.
  - explode
```
public static java.lang.String[] explode(java.lang.String str,
                                         int ch)
```
    returns an array of strings decomposed of the original string, split at every occurrence of 'ch'. if 2 'ch' follow each other with no intermediate characters, empty "" entries are avoided.
    
    Parameters:
    
    str - the string to decompose
    
    ch - the character to use a split pattern
    
    Returns:
    
    an array of strings
  - explode
```
public static java.lang.String[] explode(java.lang.String str,
                                         int ch,
                                         boolean respectEmpty)
```
    returns an array of strings decomposed of the original string, split at every occurrence of 'ch'.
    
    Parameters:
    
    str - the string to decompose
    
    ch - the character to use a split pattern
    
    respectEmpty - if true, empty elements are generated
    
    Returns:
    
    an array of strings
  - implode
```
public static java.lang.String implode(java.lang.String[] arr,
                                       java.lang.String delim)
```
    Concatenates all strings in the string array using the specified delimiter.
    
    Parameters:
    
    arr -
    
    delim -
    
    Returns:
    
    the concatenated string
  - replace
```
public static java.lang.String replace(java.lang.String text,
                                       java.lang.String oldString,
                                       java.lang.String newString)
```
    Replaces all occurrences of oldString in text with newString.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text -
    
    oldString - old substring to be replaced with newString
    
    newString - new substring to replace occurrences of oldString
    
    Returns:
    
    a string
  - encodeIllegalXMLCharacters
```
public static java.lang.String encodeIllegalXMLCharacters(java.lang.String text)
```
    Replaces XML characters in the given string that might need escaping as XML text or attribute
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - text to be escaped
    
    Returns:
    
    a string
  - encodeIllegalHTMLCharacters
```
public static java.lang.String encodeIllegalHTMLCharacters(java.lang.String text)
```
    Replaces HTML characters in the given string that might need escaping as HTML text or attribute
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - text to be escaped
    
    Returns:
    
    a string
  - escape
```
public static java.lang.String escape(java.lang.String string,
                                      char escape)
```
    Does an URL encoding of the string using the escape character. The characters that don't need encoding are those defined 'unreserved' in section 2.3 of the 'URI generic syntax' RFC 2396, but without the escape character.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to encode.
    
    escape - the escape character.
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped string
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if string is null.
  - escape
```
public static java.lang.String escape(java.lang.String string,
                                      char escape,
                                      boolean isPath)
```
    Does an URL encoding of the string using the escape character. The characters that don't need encoding are those defined 'unreserved' in section 2.3 of the 'URI generic syntax' RFC 2396, but without the escape character. If isPath is true, additionally the slash '/' is ignored, too.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to encode.
    
    escape - the escape character.
    
    isPath - if true, the string is treated as path
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped string
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if string is null.
  - escape
```
public static java.lang.String escape(java.lang.String string)
```
    Does a URL encoding of the string. The characters that don't need encoding are those defined 'unreserved' in section 2.3 of the 'URI generic syntax' RFC 2396.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to encode
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped string
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if string is null.
  - escapePath
```
public static java.lang.String escapePath(java.lang.String path)
```
    Does a URL encoding of the path. The characters that don't need encoding are those defined 'unreserved' in section 2.3 of the 'URI generic syntax' RFC 2396. In contrast to the escape(String) method, not the entire path string is escaped, but every individual part (i.e. the slashes are not escaped).
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path to encode
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped path
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if path is null.
  - unescape
```
public static java.lang.String unescape(java.lang.String string,
                                        char escape)
```
    Does a URL decoding of the string using the escape character. Please note that in opposite to the URLDecoder it does not transform the + into spaces.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to decode
    
    escape - the escape character
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoded string
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if string is null.
    
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the 2 characters following the escape character do not represent a hex-number or if not enough characters follow an escape character
  - unescape
```
public static java.lang.String unescape(java.lang.String string)
```
    Does a URL decoding of the string. Please note that in opposite to the URLDecoder it does not transform the + into spaces.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to decode
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoded string
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if string is null.
    
    java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - if not enough character follow an escape character
    
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the 2 characters following the escape character do not represent a hex-number.
  - escapeIllegalJcrChars
```
public static java.lang.String escapeIllegalJcrChars(java.lang.String name)
```
    Escapes all illegal JCR name characters of a string. The encoding is loosely modeled after URI encoding, but only encodes the characters it absolutely needs to in order to make the resulting string a valid JCR name. Use unescapeIllegalJcrChars(String) for decoding.
    QName EBNF:
    simplename ::= onecharsimplename | twocharsimplename | threeormorecharname onecharsimplename ::= (* Any Unicode character except: '.', '/', ':', '[', ']', '*', '|' or any whitespace character *) twocharsimplename ::= '.' onecharsimplename | onecharsimplename '.' | onecharsimplename onecharsimplename threeormorecharname ::= nonspace string nonspace string ::= char | string char char ::= nonspace | ' ' nonspace ::= (* Any Unicode character except: '/', ':', '[', ']', '*', '|' or any whitespace character *)
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name to escape
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped name
  - escapeIllegalJcr10Chars
```
public static java.lang.String escapeIllegalJcr10Chars(java.lang.String name)
```
    Escapes all illegal JCR 1.0 name characters of a string. Use unescapeIllegalJcrChars(String) for decoding.
    QName EBNF:
    simplename ::= onecharsimplename | twocharsimplename | threeormorecharname onecharsimplename ::= (* Any Unicode character except: '.', '/', ':', '[', ']', '*', ''', '"', '|' or any whitespace character *) twocharsimplename ::= '.' onecharsimplename | onecharsimplename '.' | onecharsimplename onecharsimplename threeormorecharname ::= nonspace string nonspace string ::= char | string char char ::= nonspace | ' ' nonspace ::= (* Any Unicode character except: '/', ':', '[', ']', '*', ''', '"', '|' or any whitespace character *)
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name to escape
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped name
    
    Since:
    
    Apache Jackrabbit 2.3.2 and 2.2.10
    
    See Also:
    
    JCR-3128
  - escapeIllegalXpathSearchChars
```
public static java.lang.String escapeIllegalXpathSearchChars(java.lang.String s)
```
    Escapes illegal XPath search characters at the end of a string.
    Example:
    A search string like 'test?' will run into a ParseException documented in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1248
    
    Parameters:
    
    s - the string to encode
    
    Returns:
    
    the escaped string
  - unescapeIllegalJcrChars
```
public static java.lang.String unescapeIllegalJcrChars(java.lang.String name)
```
    Unescapes previously escaped jcr chars.
    Please note, that this does not exactly the same as the url related unescape(String), since it handles the byte-encoding differently.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name to unescape
    
    Returns:
    
    the unescaped name
  - getName
```
public static java.lang.String getName(java.lang.String path)
```
    Returns the name part of the path. If the given path is already a name (i.e. contains no slashes) it is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path
    
    Returns:
    
    the name part or null if path is null.
  - getName
```
public static java.lang.String getName(java.lang.String path,
                                       char delim)
```
    Returns the name part of the path, delimited by the given delim. If the given path is already a name (i.e. contains no delim characters) it is returned.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path
    
    delim - the delimiter
    
    Returns:
    
    the name part or null if path is null.
  - getName
```
public static java.lang.String getName(java.lang.String path,
                                       boolean ignoreTrailingSlash)
```
    Same as getName(String) but adding the possibility to pass paths that end with a trailing '/'
    
    See Also:
    
    getName(String)
  - getNamespacePrefix
```
public static java.lang.String getNamespacePrefix(java.lang.String qname)
```
    Returns the namespace prefix of the given qname. If the prefix is missing, an empty string is returned. Please note, that this method does not validate the name or prefix.
    The qname has the format: qname := [prefix ':'] local;
    
    Parameters:
    
    qname - a qualified name
    
    Returns:
    
    the prefix of the name or "".
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if qname is null
    
    See Also:
    
    getLocalName(String)
  - getLocalName
```
public static java.lang.String getLocalName(java.lang.String qname)
```
    Returns the local name of the given qname. Please note, that this method does not validate the name.
    The qname has the format: qname := [prefix ':'] local;
    
    Parameters:
    
    qname - a qualified name
    
    Returns:
    
    the localname
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if qname is null
    
    See Also:
    
    getNamespacePrefix(String)
  - isSibling
```
public static boolean isSibling(java.lang.String p1,
                                java.lang.String p2)
```
    Determines, if two paths denote hierarchical siblins.
    
    Parameters:
    
    p1 - first path
    
    p2 - second path
    
    Returns:
    
    true if on same level, false otherwise
  - isDescendant
```
public static boolean isDescendant(java.lang.String path,
                                   java.lang.String descendant)
```
    Determines if the descendant path is hierarchical a descendant of path.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the current path
    
    descendant - the potential descendant
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the descendant is a descendant; false otherwise.
  - isDescendantOrEqual
```
public static boolean isDescendantOrEqual(java.lang.String path,
                                          java.lang.String descendant)
```
    Determines if the descendant path is hierarchical a descendant of path or equal to it.
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path to check
    
    descendant - the potential descendant
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the descendant is a descendant or equal; false otherwise.
  - getRelativeParent
```
public static java.lang.String getRelativeParent(java.lang.String path,
                                                 int level)
```
    Returns the n^th relative parent of the path, where n=level.
    Example:
    Text.getRelativeParent("/foo/bar/test", 1) == "/foo/bar"
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path of the page
    
    level - the level of the parent
  - getRelativeParent
```
public static java.lang.String getRelativeParent(java.lang.String path,
                                                 int level,
                                                 boolean ignoreTrailingSlash)
```
    Same as getRelativeParent(String, int) but adding the possibility to pass paths that end with a trailing '/'
    
    See Also:
    
    getRelativeParent(String, int)
  - getAbsoluteParent
```
public static java.lang.String getAbsoluteParent(java.lang.String path,
                                                 int level)
```
    Returns the n^th absolute parent of the path, where n=level.
    Example:
    Text.getAbsoluteParent("/foo/bar/test", 1) == "/foo/bar"
    
    Parameters:
    
    path - the path of the page
    
    level - the level of the parent
  - replaceVariables
```
public static java.lang.String replaceVariables(java.util.Properties variables,
                                                java.lang.String value,
                                                boolean ignoreMissing)
                                         throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
```
    Performs variable replacement on the given string value. Each ${...} sequence within the given value is replaced with the value of the named parser variable. If a variable is not found in the properties an IllegalArgumentException is thrown unless ignoreMissing is true. In the later case, the missing variable is replaced by the empty string.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - the original value
    
    ignoreMissing - if true, missing variables are replaced by the empty string.
    
    Returns:
    
    value after variable replacements
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the replacement of a referenced variable is not found

Class Text

Field Summary

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Field Detail

hexTable

URISave

URISaveEx

Method Detail

md5

md5

digest

digest

explode

explode

implode

replace

encodeIllegalXMLCharacters

encodeIllegalHTMLCharacters

escape

escape

escape

escapePath

unescape

unescape

escapeIllegalJcrChars

escapeIllegalJcr10Chars

escapeIllegalXpathSearchChars

unescapeIllegalJcrChars

getName

getName

getName

getNamespacePrefix

getLocalName

isSibling

isDescendant

isDescendantOrEqual

getRelativeParent

getRelativeParent

getAbsoluteParent

replaceVariables