ValueListAdapter.java

/**
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2016 by the respective copyright holders.
 *
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 */
package org.openhab.binding.homematic.internal.model.adapter;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

/**
 * JAXB Adapter to convert a valuelist from a variable.
 *
 * @author Gerhard Riegler
 * @since 1.5.0
 */
public class ValueListAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, String[]> {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public String[] unmarshal(String value) throws Exception {
        String[] result = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparatorPreserveAllTokens(value, ";");
        return (result.length == 0 ? null : result);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public String marshal(String[] values) throws Exception {
        return StringUtils.join(values, ";");
    }

}