org.xwiki.rendering.util
Class IdGenerator

java.lang.Object
  org.xwiki.rendering.util.IdGenerator

public class IdGenerator
extends Object

Stateful generator of id attributes. It's stateful since it remembers the generated ids. Thus a new instance of it should be used for each document.

Since:

1.6M1

Version:

$Id$

Constructor Summary

IdGenerator()

Method Summary

String	generateUniqueId(String text) Same as generateUniqueId(String, String) but with a fixed prefix of "I".
String	generateUniqueId(String prefix, String text) Generate a unique id attribute using the passed text as the seed value.
void	remove(String id) Remove the saved previously generated id to make it available again.
void	reset() Reset the known generated ids.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

IdGenerator

public IdGenerator()

Method Detail

generateUniqueId

public String generateUniqueId(String text)

Same as generateUniqueId(String, String) but with a fixed prefix of "I".

Parameters:

text - the text used to generate the unique id

Returns:

the unique id. For example "Hello world" will generate "IHelloworld".

generateUniqueId

public String generateUniqueId(String prefix,
                               String text)

Generate a unique id attribute using the passed text as the seed value. The generated id complies with the XHTML specification. Extract from XHTML RFC:

When defining fragment identifiers to be backward-compatible, only strings matching the pattern [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used.

Parameters:

prefix - the prefix of the identifier. Has to match [a-zA-Z].

text - the text used to generate the unique id

Returns:

the unique id. For example "Hello world" will generate prefix + "Helloworld".

remove

public void remove(String id)

Remove the saved previously generated id to make it available again.

Parameters:

id - the id to remove from the generated ids.

reset

public void reset()

Reset the known generated ids.