AbstractEncoder.java

/**
 * Copyright (C) 2012 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
 *
 * 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
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.n52.sos.encoder;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.n52.util.CommonUtilities;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:broering@52north.org">Arne Broering</a>
 */
public abstract class AbstractEncoder {

    protected static String readText(InputStream in) throws IOException {
        return CommonUtilities.readResource(in);
    }
    
    /**
     * Helper method.
     */
	protected static StringBuilder replace(StringBuilder builder,
            String replaceWhat,
            String replaceWith)
    {
        int indexOfTarget = -1;
        while ((indexOfTarget = builder.indexOf(replaceWhat)) > 0) {
            builder.replace(indexOfTarget, indexOfTarget + replaceWhat.length(), replaceWith);
        }
        return builder;
    }
}