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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.utils.csv; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import nl.strohalm.cyclos.entities.settings.LocalSettings; import nl.strohalm.cyclos.utils.PropertyHelper; import nl.strohalm.cyclos.utils.conversion.CoercionHelper; import nl.strohalm.cyclos.utils.conversion.Converter; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * Class used to write objects as CSV lines * @author luis */ public class CSVWriter<E> extends BaseCSVHandler<E> { /** * Creates a new instance */ public static <E> CSVWriter<E> instance(final Class<E> elementClass, final LocalSettings localSettings) { final CSVWriter<E> writer = new CSVWriter<E>(elementClass); writer.setValueSeparator( CoercionHelper.coerce(Character.TYPE, localSettings.getCsvValueSeparator().getValue())); writer.setStringQuote(CoercionHelper.coerce(Character.TYPE, localSettings.getCsvStringQuote().getValue())); writer.setRowSeparator(localSettings.getCsvRecordSeparator().getValue()); writer.setUseHeader(localSettings.isCsvUseHeader()); return writer; } protected String rowSeparator; private boolean useHeader; public CSVWriter(final Class<E> elementClass) { super(elementClass); } public String getRowSeparator() { return rowSeparator; } public boolean isUseHeader() { return useHeader; } public void setRowSeparator(final String rowSeparator) { this.rowSeparator = rowSeparator; } public void setUseHeader(final boolean useHeader) { this.useHeader = useHeader; } /** * Writes an object into a {@link PrintWriter} object */ public void write(final List<E> results, final PrintWriter out) { writeHeader(out); for (final E element : results) { writeRow(element, out); } } /** * Writes the header to the output, if header is used */ public void writeHeader(final PrintWriter out) { List<String> row; if (useHeader) { row = new ArrayList<String>(); for (final Column column : columns) { row.add(stringQuote + column.getHeader() + stringQuote); } out.print(StringUtils.join(row.iterator(), valueSeparator) + rowSeparator); } } /** * Writes a row element to the output */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public void writeRow(final E element, final PrintWriter out) { final List<String> row = new ArrayList<String>(); for (final Column column : columns) { final Object objectValue = PropertyHelper.get(element, column.getProperty()); final String stringValue = PropertyHelper.getAsString(objectValue, (Converter<Object>) column.getConverter()); row.add(escape(stringValue, stringQuote)); } out.print(StringUtils.join(row.iterator(), valueSeparator) + rowSeparator); } private String escape(final String value, final char stringQuote) { final String string = StringUtils.trimToEmpty(value); final char[] chars = string.toCharArray(); final int length = chars.length; final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(length); for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) { final char c = chars[i]; if (c == stringQuote) { sb.append(stringQuote).append(stringQuote); } else { sb.append(c); } } return stringQuote + sb.toString() + stringQuote; } }