trunk/oak-core-spi/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/commons/jmx/JmxUtil.java

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package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.commons.jmx;

import javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException;
import javax.management.ObjectName;

/**
 * Utility methods related to JMX
 */
public final class JmxUtil {

    private JmxUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * Checks if the passed value string can be used as is as part of
     * JMX {@link javax.management.ObjectName} If it cannot be used then
     * it would return a quoted string which is then safe to be used
     * as part of ObjectName.
     *
     * <p>This is meant to avoid unnecessary quoting of value</p>
     *
     * @param unquotedValue to quote if required
     * @return passed value or quoted value if required
     */
    public static String quoteValueIfRequired(String unquotedValue) {
        String result;
        String quotedValue = ObjectName.quote(unquotedValue);

        //Check if some chars are escaped or not. In that case
        //length of quoted string (excluding quotes) would differ
        if (quotedValue.substring(1, quotedValue.length() - 1).equals(unquotedValue)) {
            ObjectName on = null;
            try {
                //Quoting logic in ObjectName does not escape ',', '='
                //etc. So try now by constructing ObjectName. If that
                //passes then value can be used as safely

                //Also we cannot just rely on ObjectName as it treats
                //*, ? as pattern chars and which should ideally be escaped
                on = new ObjectName("dummy", "dummy", unquotedValue);
            } catch (MalformedObjectNameException ignore) {
                //ignore
            }

            if (on != null){
                result = unquotedValue;
            } else {
                result = quotedValue;
            }
        } else {
            //Some escaping done. So do quote
            result = quotedValue;
        }
        return result;
    }


}