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Utility method that return a String representation of a map The elements will be represented as key = value
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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
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/**
* Various string manipulation methods that are more efficient then chaining
* string operations: all is done in the same buffer without creating a bunch of
* string objects.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:dev@labs.apache.org">Dungeon Project</a>
*/
public class Main {
/**
* Utility method that return a String representation of a map. The elements
* will be represented as "key = value"
*
* @param map
* The map to transform to a string
* @return A csv string
*/
public static final String mapToString( Map map )
{
if ( ( map == null ) || ( map.size() == 0 ) )
{
return "";
}
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
boolean isFirst = true;
Iterator iter = map.keySet().iterator();
while ( iter.hasNext() )
{
if ( isFirst )
{
isFirst = false;
}
else
{
sb.append( ", " );
}
Object key = iter.next();
sb.append( key );
sb.append( " = '" ).append( map.get( key ) ).append( "'" );
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
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