HeaderParser.java

/*
 * Copyright 2010 david varnes.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
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 *
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package org.freeswitch.esl.client.internal;

import org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder;

/**
 * This parser provides a static helper method to split a standard Header field
 * into the name and value parts.
 * <p>
 * This code was copied from the splitHeader() method in the {@link HttpMessageDecoder} class, which
 * is licensed under the Apache License version 2. (Original author: Trustin Lee.)
 *  
 * @author	 Trustin Lee
 * @author   david varnes
 */
public class HeaderParser
{
    /**
     * Split a header in the form 
     * <pre>
     *   Header-Name: Some_header-value
     * </pre>
     * into a String array.
     * 
     * @param  sb the string header to parse
     * @return a String[] array with header name at 0 and header value at 1
     */
    public static String[] splitHeader(String sb) {
        final int length = sb.length();
        int nameStart;
        int nameEnd;
        int colonEnd;
        int valueStart;
        int valueEnd;

        nameStart = findNonWhitespace(sb, 0);
        for (nameEnd = nameStart; nameEnd < length; nameEnd ++) {
            char ch = sb.charAt(nameEnd);
            if (ch == ':' || Character.isWhitespace(ch)) {
                break;
            }
        }

        for (colonEnd = nameEnd; colonEnd < length; colonEnd ++) {
            if (sb.charAt(colonEnd) == ':') {
                colonEnd ++;
                break;
            }
        }

        valueStart = findNonWhitespace(sb, colonEnd);
        if (valueStart == length) {
            return new String[] {
                    sb.substring(nameStart, nameEnd),
                    ""
            };
        }

        valueEnd = findEndOfString(sb);
        return new String[] {
                sb.substring(nameStart, nameEnd),
                sb.substring(valueStart, valueEnd)
        };
    }

    private static int findNonWhitespace(String sb, int offset) {
        int result;
        for (result = offset; result < sb.length(); result ++) {
            if (!Character.isWhitespace(sb.charAt(result))) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    private static int findEndOfString(String sb) {
        int result;
        for (result = sb.length(); result > 0; result --) {
            if (!Character.isWhitespace(sb.charAt(result - 1))) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}