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/* This file is part of Cyclos (www.cyclos.org). A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org). Cyclos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Cyclos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cyclos; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ package nl.strohalm.cyclos.taglibs; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException; import javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter; import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport; import nl.strohalm.cyclos.utils.StringHelper; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * Truncates a string. Useful on lists where the description may contain large data * @author luis */ public class TruncateTag extends TagSupport { public static final int DEFAULT_LENGTH = 60; public static final int DEFAULT_LINES = 1; private static final Pattern LINE_BREAK_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("[\\r\\n]+", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); private static final Pattern BREAK_TAG_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("<(p|br)[^>]*>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); private static final Pattern PARAGRAPH_END_TAG_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("<\\/p[^>]*>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); private static final Pattern DOUBLE_SPACE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("\\s\\s+"); private static final Pattern SPACE_BREAK_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("\\s[\\n|\\s]+"); private static final long serialVersionUID = 7763882160354732177L; public static String truncate(final Object object, final int length) { return truncate(object, length, 1); } public static String truncate(final Object object, final int length, final int lines) { return truncate(object, length, lines, false); } public static String truncate(final Object object, final int length, final int lines, final boolean html) { if (object == null) { return ""; } String string = StringUtils.trimToEmpty(object.toString()); // HTML code is changed into plain text... if (html) { // First remove normal line breaks string = LINE_BREAK_PATTERN.matcher(string).replaceAll("\n"); // Change break tags into normal line breaks string = BREAK_TAG_PATTERN.matcher(string).replaceAll("\n"); string = PARAGRAPH_END_TAG_PATTERN.matcher(string).replaceAll(""); // Then remove all other tags string = StringHelper.removeMarkupTagsAndUnescapeEntities(string); // Remove double spaces with line breaks by a single break string = SPACE_BREAK_PATTERN.matcher(string).replaceAll("\n"); // Remove double spaces string = DOUBLE_SPACE_PATTERN.matcher(string).replaceAll(" "); } else { string = StringUtils.replace(string, "\r", ""); } final String[] stringLines = StringUtils.split(string, '\n'); if (lines > 0) { final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (int i = 0; i < lines && i < stringLines.length; i++) { if (i > 0) { sb.append('\n'); } sb.append(stringLines[i]); } string = sb.toString(); } if (string.length() > length) { int pos = length - 3; for (int i = 0; i < Math.min(length - 3, 10); i++) { final char c = string.charAt(pos - i); if (Character.isWhitespace(c) || ".,()!?".indexOf(c) >= 0) { pos -= i; break; } } string = string.substring(0, pos).trim() + "..."; } return string; } private Object value; private int length = DEFAULT_LENGTH; private int lines = DEFAULT_LINES; private boolean html; @Override public int doEndTag() throws JspException { final JspWriter out = pageContext.getOut(); try { out.write(truncate(value, length, lines, html)); } catch (final IOException e) { throw new JspException(e); } return EVAL_PAGE; } public int getLength() { return length; } public int getLines() { return lines; } public Object getValue() { return value; } public boolean isHtml() { return html; } @Override public void release() { super.release(); value = null; lines = DEFAULT_LINES; length = DEFAULT_LENGTH; } public void setHtml(final boolean html) { this.html = html; } public void setLength(final int length) { this.length = length; } public void setLines(final int maxRows) { lines = maxRows; } public void setValue(final Object value) { this.value = value; } }