HttpUtil.java

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 * Copyright (C) 2001 Myles Chippendale
 *
 * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
 * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
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 */
package org.melati.util;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * An assortment of useful things to do with <code>Http</code>.
 */
public final class HttpUtil {

  
  private HttpUtil() {}

  /**
   * Add a Zone URL to buffer.
   *  
   * @param url an empty StringBuffer to append to 
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   */
  public static void appendZoneURL(StringBuffer url, 
                                   HttpServletRequest request) {
    String scheme = request.getScheme();
    url.append(scheme);
    url.append("://");
    url.append(request.getServerName());
    if ((scheme.equals("http") && 
        request.getServerPort() != 80
        )
        ||
        (scheme.equals("https") && 
        request.getServerPort() != 443)) {
      url.append(':');
      url.append(request.getServerPort());
    }
    appendRelativeZoneURL(url,request);
  }

  /**
   * Return the server URL.
   *  
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   */
  public static String getServerURL(HttpServletRequest request) {
    StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
    String scheme = request.getScheme();
    url.append(scheme);
    url.append("://");
    url.append(request.getServerName());
    if ((scheme.equals("http") && 
        request.getServerPort() != 80
        )
        ||
        (scheme.equals("https") && 
        request.getServerPort() != 443)) {
      url.append(':');
      url.append(request.getServerPort());
    }
    return url.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Append relative servlet zone url.
   * 
   * Note that this function should return 
   * /zone/servlet from a request of form 
   * http://host/zone/servlet/pathinfo?querystring
   * on all servlet API versions greater than 2.0.
   * In 2.0 the zone was returned in the ServletPath 
   * it is now in the ContextPath.
   * @param url StringBuffer to append to 
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   */
  public static void appendRelativeZoneURL (
      StringBuffer url, HttpServletRequest request) {
    url.append(request.getContextPath());
    String servletPath = request.getServletPath();
    if (servletPath != null && !servletPath.equals("")) {
      url.append(servletPath.substring(0, servletPath.lastIndexOf('/')));
      if (servletPath.lastIndexOf('/') == -1) 
        throw new MelatiBugMelatiException(
            "Servlet Path does not contain a forward slash:" + servletPath);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Retrieve a Zone url.
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   * @return an Url up to the zone specification as a String 
   */
  public static String zoneURL(HttpServletRequest request) {
    StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
    appendZoneURL(url, request);
    return url.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Retrieve a Servlet url from a request.
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   * @return an Url up to the servlet specification as a String 
   */
  public static String servletURL(HttpServletRequest request) {
    StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
    appendZoneURL(url, request);
    String servlet = request.getServletPath();
    if (servlet != null && !servlet.equals(""))
      url.append(servlet.substring(
                          servlet.lastIndexOf('/'), servlet.length()));
    return url.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Retrieve a relative url from a request.
   * @param request the request to interrogate
   * @return a relative Url  
   */
  public static String getRelativeRequestURL(HttpServletRequest request) {
    StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
    url.append(request.getContextPath());
    if (request.getServletPath() != null) url.append(request.getServletPath());
    if (request.getPathInfo() != null) url.append(request.getPathInfo());
    return url.toString();
  }

  /**
   * @param url An url or relative url which may end in a slash
   * @param relativeUrl A relative url which may start with a slash
   * @return an url without a duplicated slash at the join
   */
  public static String concatenateUrls(String url, String relativeUrl) {
    if (url.endsWith("/") && relativeUrl.startsWith("/"))
      return url.substring(0, url.lastIndexOf('/')) + relativeUrl;
    else 
      return url + relativeUrl;
  }

}