com.screenscraper.util.form

Class FormUtility

java.lang.Object

com.screenscraper.util.form.FormUtility

public class FormUtility
extends java.lang.Object

Utility used for forms with useful regex abilities for extracting data

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	HTML_WHITE_SPACE_REGEX Regular expression for values that should be considered white space in HTML (not  )
static java.lang.String	QUOTE Regular expression for values that should be considered a quote in HTML

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static java.lang.String	extractAttribute(java.lang.String attributeName, java.lang.String tag) Gets the attribute value given its name and the tag text it should be in
static java.lang.String	extractAttribute(java.lang.String attributeName, java.lang.String tag, boolean convertEntities) Gets the attribute value given its name and the tag text it should be in

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

HTML_WHITE_SPACE_REGEX

public static final java.lang.String HTML_WHITE_SPACE_REGEX

Regular expression for values that should be considered white space in HTML (not  )

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Constant Field Values

QUOTE

public static final java.lang.String QUOTE

Regular expression for values that should be considered a quote in HTML

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

extractAttribute

@Nullable
public static java.lang.String extractAttribute(java.lang.String attributeName,
                                                           @NotNull
                                                           java.lang.String tag)

Gets the attribute value given its name and the tag text it should be in

Parameters:

attributeName - The name of the attribute to extract

tag - The HTML text containing the attribute and its value

Returns:

The value of the attribute in the tag, or null if it couldn't be found

extractAttribute

@Nullable
public static java.lang.String extractAttribute(@Nullable
                                                           java.lang.String attributeName,
                                                           @NotNull
                                                           java.lang.String tag,
                                                           boolean convertEntities)

Gets the attribute value given its name and the tag text it should be in

Parameters:

attributeName - The name of the attribute to extract

tag - The HTML text containing the attribute and its value

convertEntities - Should the value extracted have entities converted

Returns:

The value of the attribute in the tag, or null if it couldn't be found