How to trim all strings in a bean (pojo/value object) in Java

One of my favourite frameworks is webfirmframework

Forms are used everywhere in a web/desktop/other applications. In these forms, the user may enter values starting and/or ending with spaces. But we may not need theses spaces at the starting and ending, so we may want to trim it. As we know, we may simply use a trim() method to trim a string. But, what if we want to trim all strings in a bean/pojo/value object. Suppose, consider a form having some fields, first name, last name, address etc... The user may enter the values as

First Name :

Last Name :

Address : 

The values have spaces in the beginning and ending. So, to write code to trim every string separately is a kind of messing sometimes.

Here is a method which can trim all strings in a bean/pojo/value object (Only the strings will be trimmed, so it doesn't matter if it contains data types other than strings). Before that let us make a value object (POJO/bean) for these fields.
Consider it as a profile information :

So


package com.company.project.valueobjects;

import java.io.Serializable;


public class Profile implements Serializable {


private static final long serialVersionUID = 6378955155265367593L;

private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String address;
private double latitude;
private double longitude;

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {

return lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {

this.lastName = lastName;
}

public String getAddress() {

return address;
}

public void setAddress(String address) {

this.address = address;
}

public double getLatitude() {

return latitude;
}

public void setLatitude(double latitude) {

this.latitude = latitude;
}

public double getLongitude() {

return longitude;
}

public void setLongitude(double longitude) {

this.longitude = longitude;
}
}


And the utility class is as follows :


package com.company.project.common.helpers;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

/**
 * 
 * <b>File Name :</b> <i>BeanUtils.java</i> <br>
 * <b>Description :</b>
 * <p>
 * This class contains the activities of skill program. <br/>
 * <br/>
 * <b>Copyright :</b> Copyright© yyyy description
 * </p>
 * <h1>Version History :</h1>
 * 
 * Date : 20-06-2013<br/>
 * Description : First Draft
 * 
 * @version 1.0.0.1
 * @since 1.0.0.0.1
 * @author visruth
 * 
 */
public class BeanUtils implements Serializable {

/**
* This method trims all String variables defined in the bean if they have
* corresponding getter setter methods. <br/>
* Eg : BeanUtils beanUtils=new BeanUtils();<br/>
* StudentVO studentVO=new StudentVO();<br/>
* studentVO.setName("   foo   ");<br/>
* studentVO.setAddress("   bar   ");<br/>
* beanUtils.trimAllStrings(studentVO);<br/>
* System.out.println(studentVO.getName());//prints foo<br/>
* System.out.println(studentVO.getAddress());//prints bar<br/>

* @param beanObject
* @throws Exception
*             If a variable has its getter method defined but not setter
*             method will throw NoSuchMethodException instance as
*             Exception.
* @author visruth
*/
public void trimAllStrings(Object beanObject) throws Exception {
Exception noSuchMethodException = null;
boolean throwNoSuchMethodException = false;
if (beanObject != null) {

Method[] methods = null;

try {
methods = beanObject.getClass().getMethods();
} catch (SecurityException e) {
throw new Exception(e);
}

if (methods != null) {

for (Method method : methods) {

String methodName = method.getName();

if (!methodName.equals("getClass")) {

String returnType = method.getReturnType().toString();
String commonMethodName = null;

if (methodName.startsWith("get")
&& "class java.lang.String".equals(returnType)) {

commonMethodName = methodName.replaceFirst("get",
"");
String returnedValue = null;

try {
returnedValue = (String) method
.invoke(beanObject);
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
}

if (returnedValue != null) {

StringBuilder setterMethodName = new StringBuilder();
setterMethodName.append("set");
setterMethodName.append(commonMethodName);
Method setterMethod = null;

try {
setterMethod = beanObject
.getClass()
.getMethod(
setterMethodName.toString(),
String.class);
if (setterMethod != null) {
setterMethod.invoke(beanObject,
(returnedValue.trim()));
}
} catch (SecurityException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
} catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
if (!throwNoSuchMethodException) {
noSuchMethodException = e;
}
throwNoSuchMethodException = true;
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

if (throwNoSuchMethodException && noSuchMethodException != null) {
throw noSuchMethodException;
}
}

/**
* converts an Object to String

* @param object1
* @return String
* @author visruth
*/
public String toString(Object object) {
if (object != null) {
return object.toString();
} else {
return null;
}
}

}

To test :


public static void main(String[] args) {
BeanUtils beanUtils = new BeanUtils();

ProfileVO profileVO = new ProfileVO();

profileVO.setFirstName("      Visruth         ");
profileVO.setLastName("       CV              ");
profileVO.setAddress("        Address         ");

System.out.println(profileVO.getFirstName());
System.out.println(profileVO.getLastName());
System.out.println(profileVO.getAddress());

try {
beanUtils.trimAllStrings(profileVO);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

System.out.println(profileVO.getFirstName());
System.out.println(profileVO.getLastName());
System.out.println(profileVO.getAddress());
}


And the output : 


      Visruth         
       CV              
        Address         
Visruth
CV
Address


Please share if you know any other utility methods which is not available as a ready-made component....









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