Metacat

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

public class metacatURL

{

  private String[][] params = new String[200][2];

  private String urlType = null;

  /**

   * This constructor takes a string url and parses it according to the  

   * following rules.  

   * 1) The name of the url is the text before the "://" symbol.

   * 2) Parameter names are written first and are terminated with the # symbol

   * 3) Parameter values come 2nd and are terminated with an & except for the

   *    last value

   * The form of the url looks like: 

   * urltype://name1#value1&name2#value2&nameN#valueN

   * notice there is no & after the last param.  If one is there it is ignored.

   *

   * @param url the string to parse

   */

  public metacatURL(String url) throws MalformedURLException

  {

    parseURL(url);

  }

  /**

   * This method takes a string url and parses it according to the following 

   * rules.  

   * 1) The name of the url is the text before the "://" symbol.

   * 2) Parameter names are written first and are terminated with the # symbol

   * 3) Parameter values come 2nd and are terminated with an & except for the

   *    last value

   * The form of the url looks like: 

   * urltype://name1#value1&name2#value2&nameN#valueN

   * notice there is no & after the last param.  If one is there it is ignored.

   */

  private void parseURL(String url) throws MalformedURLException

  {

    String pname = null;

    String param = null;

    String temp = "";

    boolean ampflag = true;

    boolean poundflag = false;

    int arrcount = 0;

    int urlTypeIndex = url.indexOf("://"); //anything before this is the urltype

    this.urlType = url.substring(0, urlTypeIndex);

    if(this.urlType.equals("http"))

    {//if this is an http url

      params[0][0] = "httpurl";

      params[0][1] = url.substring(0, url.length());

    }

    else

    {//other urls that meet the metacat type url structure.

      for(int i=urlTypeIndex + 3; i<url.length(); i++)

      { //go throught the remainder of the url one character at a time.

        if(url.charAt(i) == '#')

        { //if the current char is a # then the preceding should be a parametet

          //name

          if(!poundflag && ampflag)

          {

            params[arrcount][0] = temp.trim();

            temp = "";

          }

          else

          { //if there are two #s or &s in a row throw an exception.

            throw new MalformedURLException("metacatURL: Two parameter names " +

                                            "not allowed in sequence");

          }

          poundflag = true;

          ampflag = false;

        }

        else if(url.charAt(i) == '&' || i == url.length()-1)

        { //the text preceding the & should be the param value.

          if(i == url.length() - 1)

          { //if we are at the end of the string grab the last value and append it.

            if(url.charAt(i) != '&')

            { //ignore an extra & on the end of the string

              temp += url.charAt(i);

            }

          }

          if(!ampflag && poundflag)

          {

            params[arrcount][1] = temp.trim();

            temp = "";

            arrcount++; //increment the array to the next row.

          }

          else

          { //if there are two #s or &s in a row through an exception

            throw new MalformedURLException("metacatURL: Two parameter values " +

                                            "not allowed in sequence");

          }

          poundflag = false;

          ampflag = true;

        }

        else

        { //get the next character in the string

          temp += url.charAt(i); 

        }

      }

    }

  }

  /**

   * Returns the type of the url. This is defined by the text before the "://" 

   * symbol in the url.

   */

  public String getURLType()

  {

    return this.urlType; 

  }

  /**

   * Returns the parameters as a 2D string array.

   */

  public String[][] getParams()

  {

    return this.params;

  }

  /**

   * Prints the parameters neatly to system.out

   */

  public void printParams()

  {

    String[][] p = null;

    System.out.println("url type: " + this.getURLType());

    System.out.println("parameters: ");

    p = this.getParams();

    System.out.println("name          value");

    System.out.println("-------------------");

    for(int i=0; i<p.length; i++)

    {

      if(p[i][0] != null)

      {

        System.out.print(p[i][0]);

        System.out.print("          ");

        System.out.print(p[i][1]);

        System.out.println();

      }

    }

  }

  /**

   * Returns a single parameter and value as a 1D string array.

   *

   * @param index the index of the parameter, value array that you want.

   */

  public String[] getParam(int index)

  {

    String[] s = new String[2];

    s[0] = this.params[index][0].trim();

    s[1] = this.params[index][1].trim();

    //System.out.println("0: " + s[0]);

    //System.out.println("1: " + s[1]);

    return s;

  }

  /**

   * Test method for this class.

   */

  public static void main(String args[])

  {

    String testurl =  "metacat://docid#NCEAS:2&docid#NCEAS:5&username#chad";

    try

    {

      metacatURL murl = new metacatURL(testurl);

      String[][] p = null;

      System.out.println("url type: " + murl.getURLType());

      System.out.println("parameters: ");

      p = murl.getParams();

      System.out.println("name          value");

      System.out.println("-------------------");

      for(int i=0; i<p.length; i++)

      {

        if(p[i][0] != null)

        {

          System.out.print(p[i][0]);

          System.out.print("          ");

          System.out.print(p[i][1]);

          System.out.println();

        }

      }

    }

    catch(MalformedURLException murle)

    {

      System.out.println("bad url " + murle.getMessage()); 

    }

  }

}