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| package org.apache.commons.configuration2.convert; |
| |
| import java.util.Collection; |
| import java.util.Collections; |
| import java.util.IdentityHashMap; |
| import java.util.List; |
| |
| /** |
| * <p> |
| * Definition of an interface that controls the handling of list delimiters in configuration properties. |
| * </p> |
| * <p> |
| * {@link org.apache.commons.configuration2.AbstractConfiguration AbstractConfiguration} supports list delimiters in |
| * property values. If such a delimiter is found, the value actually contains multiple values and has to be split. This |
| * is useful for instance for {@link org.apache.commons.configuration2.PropertiesConfiguration PropertiesConfiguration}: |
| * properties files that have to be compatible with the {@link java.util.Properties} class cannot have multiple |
| * occurrences of a single property key, therefore a different storage scheme for multi-valued properties is needed. A |
| * possible storage scheme could look as follows: |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * <pre> |
| * myProperty=value1,value2,value3 |
| * </pre> |
| * |
| * <p> |
| * Here a comma is used as list delimiter. When parsing this property (and using a corresponding |
| * {@code ListDelimiterHandler} implementation) the string value is split, and three values are added for the property |
| * key. |
| * </p> |
| * <p> |
| * A {@code ListDelimiterHandler} knows how to parse and to escape property values. It is called by concrete |
| * {@code Configuration} implementations when they have to deal with properties with multiple values. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface ListDelimiterHandler { |
| /** |
| * A specialized {@code ValueTransformer} implementation which does no transformation. The {@code transformValue()} |
| * method just returns the passed in object without changes. This instance can be used by configurations which do not |
| * require additional encoding. |
| */ |
| ValueTransformer NOOP_TRANSFORMER = value -> value; |
| |
| /** |
| * Escapes the specified single value object. This method is called for properties containing only a single value. So |
| * this method can rely on the fact that the passed in object is not a list. An implementation has to check whether the |
| * value contains list delimiter characters and - if so - escape them accordingly. |
| * |
| * @param value the value to be escaped |
| * @param transformer a {@code ValueTransformer} for an additional encoding (must not be <b>null</b>) |
| * @return the escaped value |
| */ |
| Object escape(Object value, ValueTransformer transformer); |
| |
| /** |
| * Escapes all values in the given list and concatenates them to a single string. This operation is required by |
| * configurations that have to represent properties with multiple values in a single line in their external |
| * configuration representation. This may require an advanced escaping in some cases. |
| * |
| * @param values the list with all the values to be converted to a single value |
| * @param transformer a {@code ValueTransformer} for an additional encoding (must not be <b>null</b>) |
| * @return the resulting escaped value |
| */ |
| Object escapeList(List<?> values, ValueTransformer transformer); |
| |
| /** |
| * Extracts all values contained in the specified object up to the given limit. The passed in object is evaluated (if |
| * necessary in a recursive way). If it is a complex object (e.g. a collection or an array), all its elements are |
| * processed recursively and added to a target collection. The process stops if the limit is reached, but depending on |
| * the input object, it might be exceeded. (The limit is just an indicator to stop the process to avoid unnecessary work |
| * if the caller is only interested in a few values.) |
| * |
| * @param value the value to be processed |
| * @param limit the limit for aborting the processing |
| * @return a "flat" collection containing all primitive values of the passed in object |
| * @since 2.9.0 |
| */ |
| default Collection<?> flatten(final Object value, final int limit) { |
| return AbstractListDelimiterHandler.flatten(this, value, limit, Collections.newSetFromMap(new IdentityHashMap<>())); |
| } |
| |
| /** |
| * Parses the specified value for list delimiters and splits it if necessary. The passed in object can be either a |
| * single value or a complex one, e.g. a collection, an array, or an {@code Iterable}. It is the responsibility of this |
| * method to return an {@code Iterable} which contains all extracted values. |
| * |
| * @param value the value to be parsed |
| * @return an {@code Iterable} allowing access to all extracted values |
| */ |
| Iterable<?> parse(Object value); |
| |
| /** |
| * Splits the specified string at the list delimiter and returns a collection with all extracted components. A concrete |
| * implementation also has to deal with escape characters which might mask a list delimiter character at certain |
| * positions. The boolean {@code trim} flag determines whether each extracted component should be trimmed. This |
| * typically makes sense as the list delimiter may be surrounded by whitespace. However, there may be specific use cases |
| * in which automatic trimming is not desired. |
| * |
| * @param s the string to be split |
| * @param trim a flag whether each component of the string is to be trimmed |
| * @return a collection with all components extracted from the string |
| */ |
| Collection<String> split(String s, boolean trim); |
| |
| } |