package org.appfuse.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;


/**
 * String Utility Class This is used to encode passwords programmatically
 *
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 * </p>
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Matt Raible</a>
 */
public class StringUtil {
    //~ Static fields/initializers =============================================

    private final static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(StringUtil.class);

    //~ Methods ================================================================

    /**
     * Encode a string using algorithm specified in web.xml and return the
     * resulting encrypted password. If exception, the plain credentials
     * string is returned
     *
     * @param password Password or other credentials to use in authenticating
     *        this username
     * @param algorithm Algorithm used to do the digest
     *
     * @return encypted password based on the algorithm.
     */
    public static String encodePassword(String password, String algorithm) {
        byte[] unencodedPassword = password.getBytes();

        MessageDigest md = null;

        try {
            // first create an instance, given the provider
            md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("Exception: " + e);

            return password;
        }

        md.reset();

        // call the update method one or more times
        // (useful when you don't know the size of your data, eg. stream)
        md.update(unencodedPassword);

        // now calculate the hash
        byte[] encodedPassword = md.digest();

        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();

        for (int i = 0; i < encodedPassword.length; i++) {
            if ((encodedPassword[i] & 0xff) < 0x10) {
                buf.append("0");
            }

            buf.append(Long.toString(encodedPassword[i] & 0xff, 16));
        }

        return buf.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Encode a string using Base64 encoding. Used when storing passwords
     * as cookies.
     *
     * This is weak encoding in that anyone can use the decodeString
     * routine to reverse the encoding.
     *
     * @param str
     * @return String
     */
    public static String encodeString(String str)  {
        sun.misc.BASE64Encoder encoder = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder();
        return encoder.encodeBuffer(str.getBytes()).trim();
    }

    /**
     * Decode a string using Base64 encoding.
     *
     * @param str
     * @return String
     */
    public static String decodeString(String str) {
        sun.misc.BASE64Decoder dec = new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder();
        try {
            return new String(dec.decodeBuffer(str));
        } catch (IOException io) {
            throw new RuntimeException(io.getMessage(), io.getCause());
        }
    }
}