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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or
- * more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information regarding
- * copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you 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 org.apache.sling.xss;
-
-import javax.json.JsonObjectBuilder;
-import javax.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
-
-/**
- * JSON utilities
- * <p>
- * Support for handling xss protected values with JSON objects and JSON writers.
- */
-public final class JSONUtil {
-
-    /**
-     * Key suffix for XSS protected properties
-     */
-    public static final String KEY_SUFFIX_XSS = "_xss";
-
-    // no instantiation
-    private JSONUtil() {
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Puts a xss protected value into a JSON object.
-     * The value is put under the provided key.
-     *
-     * @param object JSON object
-     * @param key    Key to write
-     * @param value  Value to write
-     * @param xss    XSS protection filter
-     * @throws JsonException        If value could not be put into the object
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void putProtected(final JsonObjectBuilder object, final String key, final String value, final XSSFilter xss) {
-        final String xssValue = xss.filter(ProtectionContext.PLAIN_HTML_CONTENT, value);
-        object.add(key, xssValue);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Puts a value into a JSON object
-     * In addition, the xss protected value is put under the provided key appended by {@link #KEY_SUFFIX_XSS}
-     *
-     * @param object JSON object
-     * @param key    Key to write
-     * @param value  Value to write
-     * @param xss    XSS protection filter
-     * @throws JsonException        If value could not be put into the object
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void putWithProtected(final JsonObjectBuilder object, final String key, final String value, final XSSFilter xss) {
-        putProtected(object, key + KEY_SUFFIX_XSS, value, xss);
-        object.add(key, value);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Writes a xss protected value into a JSON writer.
-     * The value is written under the provided key.
-     *
-     * @param writer JSON writer
-     * @param key    Key to write
-     * @param value  Value to write
-     * @param xss    XSS protection filter
-     * @throws JSONException        If value could not be written
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void writeProtected(final JsonGenerator writer, final String key, final String value, final XSSFilter xss) {
-        final String xssValue = xss.filter(ProtectionContext.PLAIN_HTML_CONTENT, value);
-        writer.write(key, xssValue);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Writes a xss protected value array into a JSON writer.
-     * The values are written under the provided key.
-     *
-     * @param writer The JSON writer.
-     * @param key    Key to use.
-     * @param values The value arrays.
-     * @param xss    The XSS protection filter.
-     * @throws JsonException        If value could not be written
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void writeProtected(JsonGenerator writer, String key,
-                                      String[] values, XSSFilter xss) {
-        writer.writeStartArray(key);
-        for (String value : values) {
-            String xssValue = xss.filter(ProtectionContext.PLAIN_HTML_CONTENT, value);
-            writer.write(xssValue);
-        }
-        writer.writeEnd();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Writes a value into a JSON write
-     * In addition, the xss protected value is written with the provided key appended by {@link #KEY_SUFFIX_XSS}
-     *
-     * @param writer JSON writer
-     * @param key    Key to write
-     * @param value  Value to write
-     * @param xss    XSS protection filter
-     * @throws JSONException        If value could not be written
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void writeWithProtected(final JsonGenerator writer, final String key, final String value, final XSSFilter xss) {
-        writeProtected(writer, key + KEY_SUFFIX_XSS, value, xss);
-        writer.write(key, value);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Writes a value array into a JSON write.
-     * In addition, the xss protected values are written with the provided key
-     * appended by {@link #KEY_SUFFIX_XSS}
-     *
-     * @param writer The JSON writer to use.
-     * @param key    The key to write.
-     * @param values The value array.
-     * @param xss    The xss protection filter.
-     * @throws JSONException        If value could not be written
-     * @throws NullPointerException If xss protection filter is <code>null</code>
-     */
-    public static void writeWithProtected(JsonGenerator writer, String key,
-                                          String[] values, XSSFilter xss) {
-
-        writeProtected(writer, key + KEY_SUFFIX_XSS, values, xss);
-        // and the non-xss array variant
-        writer.writeStartArray(key);
-        for (String value : values) {
-            writer.write(value);
-        }
-        writer.writeEnd();
-    }
-}