package at.gv.egovernment.moa.id.auth.builder;

import at.gv.egovernment.moa.id.BuildException;
import at.gv.egovernment.moa.util.StringUtils;

/**
 * Base class for HTML/XML builders providing commonly useful functions.
 * 
 * @author Paul Ivancsics
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class Builder {
  
  /**
   * Replaces a given number of occurences of a special tag in an XML or HTML template by a value.
   * @param htmlTemplate template
   * @param tag special tag
   * @param value value replacing the tag
   * @param maxreplacements: -1 to replace each occurence of tag, or limit replacements by a given positive number  
   * @return XML or HTML code, the tag replaced
   * @throws BuildException when template does not contain the tag
   */
  protected String replaceTag(String template, String tag, String value, int maxreplacements) throws BuildException {
    String result = template;
    int index = result.indexOf(tag);
    if (index < 0) {
    	// Substring not found but should
        throw new BuildException(
                "builder.01", 
                new Object[] {"&lt;" + tag.substring(1, tag.length() - 1) + "&gt;"});
    } else {
       // replace each occurence
       if (maxreplacements == -1) {
         return StringUtils.replaceAll(template, tag, value);       
       } else {
         int found = 1;
         while (index > -1 && (found <= maxreplacements)) {
           result = result.substring(0, index) + value + result.substring(index + tag.length());
           index = result.indexOf(tag);
           if (index > -1) found += 1;
         }
       }
    }
    return result;
  }

}