Package com.shaiksphere.mindsmine.jems

Class URLHelper

java.lang.Object

com.shaiksphere.mindsmine.jems.URLHelper

public final class URLHelper
extends Object

A collection of useful static methods to deal with URLs.

Since:

3.5.0

Author:

Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali

See Also:

URL

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	appendQuery(String url, String param, Object value)	Appends content to the query string of a URL, handling logic for whether to place a question mark or ampersand.
static boolean	isValidURL(String url)	Returns true if the passed string is a valid URL, false otherwise.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

isValidURL

public static boolean isValidURL(String url)

Returns true if the passed string is a valid URL, false otherwise.

Example Usage:

     URLHelper.isValidURL("http://userid@example.com")       //  true
     URLHelper.isValidURL("www.example.com/main.html")       //  false
 

Parameters:

url - to check

Returns:

if the string is a valid URL

Since:

3.5.0

appendQuery

public static String appendQuery(String url, String param, Object value)

Appends content to the query string of a URL, handling logic for whether to place a question mark or ampersand.

Parameters:

url - The URL to append to.

param - The parameter key to append to the URL.

value - The parameter value to append to the URL.

Returns:

The resulting URL

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - for Invalid URL or empty arguments

Since:

3.5.0