CommandLineUtil.java

package org.grails.ide.eclipse.core.util;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
import org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.frameworks.core.ExceptionUtil;

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/**
 * Bits of code copied from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Commandline.java.
 * Original copyright header retained. Code has been slightly modified to make it compile here. 
 */
public class CommandLineUtil {

	
	/**
     * Crack a command line.
     * @param toProcess the command line to process.
     * @return the command line broken into strings.
     * An empty or null toProcess parameter results in a zero sized array.
     */
    public static String[] translateCommandline(String toProcess) throws CoreException {
        if (toProcess == null || toProcess.length() == 0) {
            //no command? no string
            return new String[0];
        }
        // parse with a simple finite state machine

        final int normal = 0;
        final int inQuote = 1;
        final int inDoubleQuote = 2;
        int state = normal;
        final StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(toProcess, "\"\' ", true);
        final ArrayList<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
        final StringBuilder current = new StringBuilder();
        boolean lastTokenHasBeenQuoted = false;

        while (tok.hasMoreTokens()) {
            String nextTok = tok.nextToken();
            switch (state) {
            case inQuote:
                if ("\'".equals(nextTok)) {
                    lastTokenHasBeenQuoted = true;
                    state = normal;
                } else {
                    current.append(nextTok);
                }
                break;
            case inDoubleQuote:
                if ("\"".equals(nextTok)) {
                    lastTokenHasBeenQuoted = true;
                    state = normal;
                } else {
                    current.append(nextTok);
                }
                break;
            default:
                if ("\'".equals(nextTok)) {
                    state = inQuote;
                } else if ("\"".equals(nextTok)) {
                    state = inDoubleQuote;
                } else if (" ".equals(nextTok)) {
                    if (lastTokenHasBeenQuoted || current.length() != 0) {
                        result.add(current.toString());
                        current.setLength(0);
                    }
                } else {
                    current.append(nextTok);
                }
                lastTokenHasBeenQuoted = false;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (lastTokenHasBeenQuoted || current.length() != 0) {
            result.add(current.toString());
        }
        if (state == inQuote || state == inDoubleQuote) {
            throw ExceptionUtil.coreException("unbalanced quotes in " + toProcess);
        }
        return result.toArray(new String[result.size()]);
    }
	
}