public static final char SEPARATOR_FORWARD_SLASH_CHAR

Forward slash character.

For environments that use the fully qualified class name (eg. SwingMetawidget) as part of the path, we must use '/' not '.' as the separator.

public static String decapitalize(String in)

Decapitalize without using java.beans, as that package is not available on all target platforms.

Following the rules defined in java.beans.Introspector: "This normally means converting the first character from upper case to lower case, but in the (unusual) special case when there is more than one character and both the first and second characters are upper case, we leave it alone. Thus 'FooBah' becomes 'fooBah' and 'X' becomes 'x', but 'URL' stays as 'URL'"

public static String capitalize(String in)

Capitalize by uppercasing the first letter of the given String (e.g. from 'fooBarBaz' to 'FooBarBaz').

The rules for capitalizing are not clearly defined in java.beans.Introspector, but we try to make capitalize the inverse of decapitalize (this includes the 'second character' clause). For example, in Eclipse if you define a property 'aB123' and then 'generate getters' Eclipse will generate a method called 'getaB123' not 'getAB123'. See: https://community.jboss.org/thread/203202?start=0&tstart=0

public static String uncamelCase(String camelCase)

Converts the given string from camel case.

For example, converts fooBar1 into Foo Bar 1. Used primarily to convert property names and paths into human-readable UI labels.

public static String uncamelCase(String camelCase,
                 char separator)

Converts the given string from camel case.

For example, converts fooBar1 into Foo Bar 1. Used primarily to convert property names and paths into human-readable UI labels.

public static String camelCase(String text)

Converts the given String to camel case.

The first letter following a separator is capitalized, as per Java convention. Non alpha numeric characters are also stripped. However no attempt is made to de capitalize the first name, because that gets very ambiguous with names like 'URL', 'ID' etc.

Used primarily to convert property paths into ids.

public static String camelCase(String text,
               char separator)

Converts the given String to camel case.

The first letter following a separator is capitalized, as per Java convention. Non alpha numeric characters are also stripped. The start of the String is decapitalized.

Used primarily to convert property paths into ids.

public static String quietValueOf(Object object)

Version of String.valueOf that fails 'quietly' for null Strings and returns an empty String rather than a String saying null.

public static String substringBefore(String text,
                     String before)

Returns the portion of the overall string that comes before the given string. If the given string is not found in the overall string, returns the entire string.

public static String substringAfter(String text,
                    String after)

Returns the portion of the overall string that comes after the first occurance of the given string. If the given string is not found in the overall string, returns the entire string.

public static String substringAfterLast(String text,
                        char after)

Returns the portion of the overall string that comes after the last occurance of the given string. If the given string is not found in the overall string, returns the entire string.