src/main/java/org/codehaus/groovy/control/XStreamUtils.java

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package org.codehaus.groovy.control;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.StaxDriver;
import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.net.URI;

public abstract class XStreamUtils {

    public static void serialize(final String name, final Object ast) {
        if (name == null || name.length() == 0) return;

        XStream xstream = new XStream(new StaxDriver());
        FileWriter astFileWriter = null;
        try {
            File astFile = astFile(name);
            if (astFile == null) {
                System.out.println("File-name for writing " + name + " AST could not be determined!");
                return;
            }
            astFileWriter = new FileWriter(astFile, false);
            xstream.toXML(ast, astFileWriter);
            System.out.println("Written AST to " + name + ".xml");

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Couldn't write to " + name + ".xml");
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            DefaultGroovyMethods.closeQuietly(astFileWriter);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Takes the incoming file-name and checks whether this is a URI using the <tt>file:</tt> protocol or a non-URI and treats
     * it accordingly.
     *
     * @return a file-name {@link java.io.File} representation or <tt>null</tt> if the file-name was in an invalid URI format
     */
    private static File astFile(final String uriOrFileName) {
        try {
            final String astFileName = uriOrFileName + ".xml";
            return uriOrFileName.startsWith("file:") ? new File(URI.create(astFileName)) : new File(astFileName);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}