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package org.jboss.console.plugins.helpers.servlet;

/**
 * Helper class
 * 
 * @author  <a href="mailto:sacha.labourey@cogito-info.ch">Sacha Labourey</a>
 * @author  <a href="mailto:dimitris@jboss.org">Dimitris Andredis</a>
 * @version $Revision: 57191 $
 */
public class ServletHelper
{
   /**
    * Encode '<', '>', '"', '&' characters to their html equivalent
    */
   public static String filter(String input)
   {
      if (input == null)
      {
         return null;
      }
      else
      {
         StringBuffer filtered = new StringBuffer(input.length() * 2);
         char c;
         for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++)
         {
            c = input.charAt(i);
            switch (c)
            {
               case '<':
                  filtered.append("<");
                  break;
               case '>':
                  filtered.append(">");
                  break;
               case '"':
                  filtered.append(""");
                  break;
               case '&':
                  filtered.append("&");
                  break;
               default:
                  filtered.append(c);
                  break;
            }
         }
         return filtered.toString();
      }
   }
}