Re: refactoring

From:
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:48:26 GMT
Message-ID:
<fqpgb31ohavrlk6r6hlrkga85vh33cp0o5@4ax.com>
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:03:10 -0000, andrewmcdonagh
<andrewmcdonagh@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

Feel free to post your original method if you'd like me to show you
what I mean using your code.


Here is the code I am trying to tidy up. Of course my mind goes blank
on all the other code I either tidied or attempted to tidy with a
similar "multiple outputs" problem.

This is a method from the static macros. It is used to expand
something like
<!-- macro Sun "JButton" docs/api/javax/swing/JButton.html -->
to
<div class="sun">Sun's Javadoc on the <span
class="jclass">JButton</span> class : available:
<ul>
<li>
<a class="offsite"
href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JButton.html">on
the web at java.Sun.com</a></li>
<li>
<a
href="file://localhost/J:/Program%20Files/java/jdk1.6.0_02/docs/api/javax/swing/JButton.html">in
the JDK 1.6.0_02</a> or in the older <a
href="file://localhost/J:/Program%20Files/java/jdk1.5.0_12/docs/api/javax/swing/JButton.html">JDK
1.5.0_12</a> or the even older <a
href="file://localhost/J:/j2sdk1.4.2_15/docs/api/javax/swing/JButton.html">JDK
1.4.2_15</a> on your local <a class="plain" href="jdrive.html">J:
drive</a>.</li>
</ul>
</div>

    /**
     * guts to Generate reference to a Sun HTML document.
     *
     * @param fileBeingProcessed File being processed that contains
the macro to
     * be expanded.
     * @param desc human descriptinon of what it is.
     * @param ref reference e.g
api/java/awt/package-summary.html
     * /s or \s. Generates
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.6.0/docs/api/java/awt/package-summary.html
     *
     * @return expand href both to on-line and local.
     *
     * @noinspection WeakerAccess
     */
    public static String expand( File fileBeingProcessed,
                                 String desc,
                                 String ref )
        {
        /* chop lead / if any */
        char firstChar = ref.charAt( 0 );
        if ( firstChar == '/' || firstChar == File.separatorChar )
            {
            ref = ref.substring( 1 );
            }

        /** reference with / instead of File.separatorChar . partial
or complete url.
         * May be extended in following code.
         */
        String refWithSlashes = ref.replace( File.separatorChar, '/'
);
        /**
         * short description with bold html applied.
         */
        final String boldDesc = "<b>" + desc + "</b>";
        /**
         * expanded description
         */
        final String longDesc;
        /**
         * Are the docs also locally available in the recent JDK docs?
         *
         * JDK 1.6 has directories api, jdk, jre, legal, platform,
technotes
         * jdk 1.5 guide*, relnotes*, tooldocs*, no longer avail.
Still has api.
         */

        final boolean localRecent;
        /**
         * Are the docs available in old locally available JDK docs?
         */
        final boolean localOld;

        /**
         * true on Sun's site is this a reference to the
         * http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ directory.
         * False, implies http://java.sun.com/
         */
        final boolean javase6;

        // expand forms where don't supply full URL.
        refWithSlashes = expandAbbreviations( refWithSlashes );

        // deal with long forms
        if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs" ) )
            {

            if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/books" ) )

                {
                // Only on sun site, not local.
                javase6 = false;
                localOld = false;
                localRecent = false;

                if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/books/codeconv"
) )
                    {
                    longDesc = "Sun's Coding Conventions on " +
boldDesc;
                    }
                else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/books/jls"
) )
                    {
                    longDesc =
                            "Sun's JLS (<b>J</b>ava <b>L</b>anguage
<b>S</b>pecification) on "
                            + boldDesc;
                    }
                else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/books/jni"
) )
                    {
                    longDesc =
                            "Sun's JNI (<b>J</b>ave <b>N</b>anive
<b>I</b>nterface) Specification on "
                            + boldDesc;
                    }
                else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith(
"docs/books/tutorial" ) )
                    {
                    longDesc = "Sun's tutorial on " + boldDesc;
                    }

                else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith(
"docs/books/vmspec" ) )
                    {
                    longDesc =
                            "Sun's VM (<b>V</b>irtual <b>M</b>achine)
Specification on "
                            + boldDesc;
                    }
                else
                    {
                    longDesc = "Sun's Book on " + boldDesc;
                    }
                }// end books

            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/api/" ) )
                {
                // strip any leading the and trailing class
                desc = StringTools.removeHead( desc, "the " );
                desc = StringTools.removeTail( desc, " class" );

                // apply styles to class/method name
                final int dotPlace = desc.indexOf( '.' );
                final String decoratedDesc;
                if ( dotPlace < 0 )
                    {
                    decoratedDesc =
                            "the <span class=\"jclass\">"
                            + desc
                            + "</span> class";
                    }
                else
                    {
                    final String firstPart = desc.substring( 0,
dotPlace );
                    final boolean firstIsClass =
                            firstPart.length() <= 0 ||
Character.isUpperCase(
                                    firstPart.charAt( 0 ) );
                    final String secondPart = desc.substring( dotPlace
+ 1 );
                    final boolean secondIsClass =
                            secondPart.length() <= 0 ||
Character.isUpperCase(
                                    secondPart.charAt( 0 ) );
                    // don't insert words class and methods, since
obvious from dot.
                    decoratedDesc =
                            "<span class=\""
                            + ( firstIsClass ? "jclass" : "jmethod" )
                            + "\">"
                            + firstPart
                            + "</span>.<span class=\""
                            + ( secondIsClass ? "jclass" : "jmethod" )
                            + "\">"
                            + secondPart
                            + "</span>";
                    }
                javase6 = true;
                localOld = true;
                localRecent = true;
                longDesc = "Sun's Javadoc on " + decoratedDesc;
                }

            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/codeconv" ) )
                {
                javase6 = false;
                localRecent = false;
                localOld = false;
                longDesc = "Sun's Coding Conventions on " + boldDesc;
                }
            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/jdk" ) )
                {
                javase6 = true;
                localRecent = true;
                localOld = false;
                longDesc = "Sun's JDK Guide to " + boldDesc;
                }
            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/jre" ) )
                {
                javase6 = true;
                localOld = true;
                localRecent = false;
                longDesc = "Sun's JRE Guide to " + boldDesc;
                }
            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/legal" ) )
                {
                javase6 = true;
                localOld = false;
                localRecent = true;

                longDesc = "Sun's Legal Guide to " + boldDesc;
                }
            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/platform" ) )
                {
                javase6 = true;
                localOld = false;
                localRecent = true;
                longDesc = "Sun's JDK Platform Guide to " + boldDesc;
                }
            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/technotes/" ) )
                {
                if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith(
"docs/technotes/guides/" ) )
                    {
                    javase6 = true;
                    localOld = false;
                    localRecent = true;
                    longDesc = "Sun's JDK Guide to " + boldDesc;
                    }
                else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith(
"docs/technotes/tools/" ) )
                    {
                    javase6 = true;
                    localOld = false;
                    localRecent = true;
                    if ( desc.endsWith( ".exe" ) )
                        {
                        longDesc =
                                "Sun's JDK Tool Guide to <span
class=\"exe\">"
                                + desc
                                + "</span>";
                        }
                    else
                        {
                        longDesc = "Sun's JDK Tool Guide to " +
boldDesc;
                        }
                    }
                else
                    {
                    /** css, samples */
                    javase6 = true;
                    localOld = false;
                    localRecent = true;
                    longDesc = "Sun's JDK Technotes on " + boldDesc;
                    }
                }// end technotes

            else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "docs/index.html" ) )
                {
                javase6 = true;
                localOld = true;
                localRecent = true;
                longDesc = boldDesc;
                }
            else
                {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Sun macro bad
reference "
                                                    + refWithSlashes
);
                }
            }// end docs

        else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "guide/" ) )
            {
            // not same as technotes/guides
            javase6 = false;
            localOld = false;
            localRecent = false;
            longDesc = "Sun's Guide to " + boldDesc;
            }

        else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "products/" ) )
            {
            javase6 = false;
            localOld = false;
            localRecent = false;
            longDesc = "Sun's Product Info on " + boldDesc;
            }
        else if ( refWithSlashes.startsWith( "webnotes/" ) )
            {
            javase6 = true;
            localOld = false;
            localRecent = false;
            longDesc = "Sun's Release notes on " + boldDesc;
            }
        else
            {
            // eg. j2ee
            javase6 = false;
            localOld = false;
            localRecent = false;
            longDesc = "Sun's documentation on " + boldDesc;
            }
        return buildSunLinks( refWithSlashes,
                              localRecent,
                              longDesc,
                              javase6,
                              localOld,
                              fileBeingProcessed );
        }

extracting the giant If does not really make the code all that
clearer. Somehow breaking up the giant if should be higher priority.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

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