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1   /*
2    * $Source$
3    * $Revision$
4    *
5    * Copyright (C) 2000 William Chesters
6    *
7    * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
8    * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
9    *
10   * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute
11   * and/or modify this software under the terms either:
12   *
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15   *    any later version,
16   *
17   *    or
18   *
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26   * GNU General Public License and visit http://melati.org to obtain the
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38   *
39   * Contact details for copyright holder:
40   *
41   *     William Chesters <williamc At paneris.org>
42   *     http://paneris.org/~williamc
43   *     Obrechtstraat 114, 2517VX Den Haag, The Netherlands
44   */
45  
46  package org.melati.poem.util;
47  
48  import java.util.ArrayList;
49  import java.util.List;
50  import java.util.Vector;
51  import java.util.Enumeration;
52  
53  /**
54   * An assortment of useful operations on <code>Enumeration</code>s.
55   */
56  public final class EnumUtils {
57    private EnumUtils() {}
58  
59    /**
60     * Skip a specified number of Elements in an Enumeration.
61     * @param e the Enumeration to skip Elements of
62     * @param n the number of Elements to skip
63     * @return the number of Elements actually skipped, may be less than asked 
64     */
65    public static <T extends Object> int skip(Enumeration<T> e, int n) {
66      int c = 0;
67      if (e instanceof SkipEnumeration<?>) {
68        SkipEnumeration<T> s = (SkipEnumeration<T>)e;
69        while (c < n && s.hasMoreElements()) {
70          s.skip();
71          ++c;
72        }
73      }
74      else
75        while (c < n && e.hasMoreElements()) {
76          e.nextElement();
77          ++c;
78        }
79  
80      return c;
81    }
82  
83    /**
84     * Create a Vector of the first n Elements of an Enumeration.
85     * If the number of elements in the Enumeration is less than 
86     * n then the remaining elements of the Vector will be null.
87     * @param e the input Enumeration
88     * @param n the number of Elements to include
89     * @return a new Vector of the initial Elements
90     */
91    public static <T extends Object> Vector<T> initial(Enumeration<T> e, int n) {
92      Vector<T> v = new Vector<T>(n);
93  
94      while (n > 0 && e.hasMoreElements()) {
95        v.addElement(e.nextElement());
96        --n;
97      }
98  
99      return v;
100   }
101 
102   /**
103    * Join two Enumerations into a single one.
104    * @param a head Enumeration
105    * @param b tail Enumeration 
106    * @return a new enumeration which is a concatenation of A and B
107    */
108   public static <T extends Object> Enumeration<T> join(Enumeration<T> a, Enumeration<T> b) {
109     Vector<T> aVector =  vectorOf(a);
110     while (b.hasMoreElements())
111       aVector.addElement(b.nextElement());
112     return aVector.elements();
113   }
114 
115   /**
116    * Create a Vector from an Enumeration.
117    * @param e the source Enumeration
118    * @param roughSize starting size of the Vector
119    * @return a Vector of the Elements of the input Enumeration
120    */
121   public static <T extends Object> Vector<T> vectorOf(Enumeration<T> e, int roughSize) {
122     Vector<T> v = new Vector<T>(roughSize);
123 
124     while (e.hasMoreElements())
125       v.addElement(e.nextElement());
126 
127     return v;
128   }
129 
130   /**
131    * Create a Vector from an Enumeration, supplying an 
132    * initial size of 20.
133    * @param e the source Enumeration
134    * @return a Vector with size at least 20 of the Elements of the input Enumeration
135    */
136   public static <T extends Object> Vector<T> vectorOf(Enumeration<T> e) {
137     return vectorOf(e, 20);
138   }
139 
140   /**
141    * Concatenate an Enumeration, specifying the separator.
142    * @param sep Separator string 
143    * @param e Enumeration to be concatenated
144    * @return A String representation of the Enumeration
145    */
146   public static String concatenated(String sep, Enumeration<?> e) {
147     StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
148 
149     if (e.hasMoreElements())
150       b.append(String.valueOf(e.nextElement()));
151 
152     while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
153       b.append(sep);
154       b.append(String.valueOf(e.nextElement()));
155     }
156 
157     return b.toString();
158   }
159 
160   /**
161    * Whether the Enumeration contain an Object.
162    * @param e an Enumeration to look in
163    * @param o the Object to look for
164    * @return true if the Object occurs in the Enumeration
165    */
166   public static boolean contains(Enumeration<?> e, Object o) {
167     while (e.hasMoreElements())
168       if (e.nextElement().equals(o))
169         return true;
170 
171     return false;
172   }
173 
174   /** @return a List from an Enumeration */
175   public static <T> List<T> list(Enumeration<T> enumeration) {
176     ArrayList<T> them = new ArrayList<T>();
177     while(enumeration.hasMoreElements())
178       them.add(enumeration.nextElement());
179     return them;
180   }
181 }