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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.validation; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URISyntaxException; import java.net.URL; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * A validation for urls * @author luis */ public class URLValidation implements PropertyValidation { private static final long serialVersionUID = -7933981104151866154L; private static final URLValidation INSTANCE_REQUIRING_DOT_ON_HOSTNAME = new URLValidation(true); private static final URLValidation INSTANCE = new URLValidation(false); public static URLValidation instance(final boolean requireDotOnHostName) { return requireDotOnHostName ? INSTANCE_REQUIRING_DOT_ON_HOSTNAME : INSTANCE; } private final boolean requireDotOnHostname; private URLValidation(final boolean requireDotOnHostname) { this.requireDotOnHostname = requireDotOnHostname; } @Override public ValidationError validate(final Object object, final Object property, final Object value) { String str = (String) value; if (StringUtils.isEmpty(str)) { return null; } try { // Use http as the default protocol if (!str.contains("://")) { str = "http://" + str; } final URL url = new URL(str); final String protocol = url.getProtocol(); // Only allow http or https if (!protocol.equalsIgnoreCase("http") && !protocol.equalsIgnoreCase("https")) { throw new MalformedURLException(); } if (requireDotOnHostname) { // Ensure there is at least one dot on the hostname if (url.getHost().indexOf('.') < 0) { throw new MalformedURLException(); } } // The conversion to URI will enforce the RFC2396 compliance url.toURI(); return null; } catch (final MalformedURLException e) { return new InvalidError(); } catch (final URISyntaxException e) { return new InvalidError(); } } }