I'd like to describe some key classes and show samples of use. Some of them are enumerated below.
StringUtils contains few oftenly used methods, like:
isEmpty(), isBlank(), isNotEmpty(), isNotBlank(), isBlankTrimmed(), isNotBlankTrimmed()- used to check whether string is empty or not. The difference between empty and blank, is that empty is eithernullor empty string, while blank is always blank string and can't benull.cut()- used to cut string if length is more than specified and appends with specified suffix. The only difference is that this method tries to split by space, so don't cut the word. Sample:
String string = "some string goes here";
assertEquals "some string...", StringUtils.cut(string, 15, "...");
trimIfNotNull()- if input string is not null, then trim it and return result:
String string = " Hello ";
assertEqual "Hello", StringUtils.trimIfNotNull(string);
assertNull StringUtils.trimIfNotNull(null);
replaceNotAlphaNumeric()- replace all characters that are not letter or digit with specified one or "_" by default.
ConversionUtils contains some simple but useful methods to convert string value to numeric and boolean types. Contains methods
getInteger(), getLong(), getBoolean(), getDouble(), getDate(), getFloat():
assertEquals 1, ConversionUtils.getInteger("1");
assertNull ConversionUtils.getInteger("hello");
assertEquals 5, ConversionUtils.getInteger("hello", 5);
KeyGenerator was created to generate API keys, passwords and other random stuff. It has one highly configurable method and few helpful methods that uses it. There is a way to generate keys with alpha and/or numeric and/or special symbols.
That would be hard to write assertions for samples, but here are simple use cases:
KeyGenerator.generateKey(10, KeyGenerator.WITH_ALPHA_LOW | KeyGenerator.WITH_ALPHA_UP);
KeyGenerator.generateStrongKey(100);
KeyGenerator.generateSimpleKey(20);
KeyGenerator.generateAlphaKey(20);
After I found some issues with Apache Commons-Lang ToStringBuilder, I wrote my own replacement, and called it... ToStringBuilder :) It is very simple in use:
class Blog {
private String name;
private String author;
private int year;
public String toString() {
new ToStringBuilder(Blog.class)
.field("name", name)
.field("author", author)
.field("year", year)
.toString();
}
}
Blog blog = new Blog();
blog.setName("Java UA");
blog.setAuthor("Ruslan Khmelyuk");
blog.setYear(2010);
assertEquals "Blog[name=Java UA, author=Ruslan Khmelyuk, year=2010]", blog.toString();
There are much more interesting tools, like ArgumentAssert and StateAssert used to assert arguments and program state respectively.
CollectionUtils also contains few useful methods, and I'm not going to describe them here.
Library is open to review and use. Still it's definitely not the best one and, I think, has value only for me.
