/*
* RHQ Management Platform
* Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
*
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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*
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*/
package org.rhq.enterprise.server.resource.group;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
/**
* A utility class containing static methods to perform common string
* manipulations or modifications for use with an LDAP implementation.
*
* @author loleary
* @since 4.0.1
*
*/
public class LDAPStringUtil {
/**
* <p>Encode a string so that it can be used in an LDAP search filter.</p>
*
* <p>The following table shows the characters that are encoded and their
* encoded version.</p>
*
* <table>
* <tr><th align="center">Character</th><th>Encoded As</th></tr>
* <tr><td align="center">*</td><td>\2a</td></tr>
* <tr><td align="center">(</td><td>\28</td></tr>
* <tr><td align="center">)</td><td>\29</td></tr>
* <tr><td align="center">\</td><td>\5c</td></tr>
* <tr><td align="center"><code>null</code></td><td>\00</td></tr>
* </table>
*
* <p>In addition to encoding the above characters, any non-ASCII character
* (any character with a hex value greater then <code>0x7f</code>) is also
* encoded and rewritten as a UTF-8 character or sequence of characters in
* hex notation.</p>
*
* @param filterString a string that is to be encoded
* @return the encoded version of <code>filterString</code> suitable for use
* in a LDAP search filter
* @see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4515">RFC 4515</a>
*/
public static String encodeForFilter(final String filterString) {
if (filterString != null && filterString.length() > 0) {
StringBuilder encString = new StringBuilder(filterString.length());
for (int i = 0; i < filterString.length(); i++) {
char ch = filterString.charAt(i);
switch (ch) {
case '*': // encode a wildcard * character
encString.append("\\2a");
break;
case '(': // encode a open parenthesis ( character
encString.append("\\28");
break;
case ')': // encode a close parenthesis ) character
encString.append("\\29");
break;
case '\\': // encode a backslash \ character
encString.append("\\5c");
break;
case '\u0000': // encode a null character
encString.append("\\00");
break;
default:
if (ch <= 0x7f) { // an ASCII character
encString.append(ch);
} else if (ch >= 0x80) { // encode to UTF-8
try {
byte[] utf8bytes = String.valueOf(ch).getBytes("UTF8");
for (byte b : utf8bytes) {
encString.append(String.format("\\%02x", b));
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
// ignore
}
}
}
}
return encString.toString();
}
return filterString;
}
}