org.dataconservancy.pass.loader.nihms.util

Class ProcessingUtil

java.lang.Object

org.dataconservancy.pass.loader.nihms.util.ProcessingUtil

public class ProcessingUtil
extends Object

General small utilities to tidy up data processing code.

Author:

Karen Hanson

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ProcessingUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static org.joda.time.DateTime	formatDate(String date, String pattern) Formats a dateto a joda datetime according to pattern provided.
static boolean	nullOrEmpty(Collection<?> collection) Returns true if a collection has 0 rows or is null
static boolean	nullOrEmpty(String str) Returns true if a string is empty or null

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ProcessingUtil

public ProcessingUtil()

Method Detail

nullOrEmpty

public static boolean nullOrEmpty(String str)

Returns true if a string is empty or null

Parameters:

str - the string, may be null

Returns:

true if a string is empty or null

nullOrEmpty

public static boolean nullOrEmpty(Collection<?> collection)

Returns true if a collection has 0 rows or is null

Parameters:

collection - the collection, may be null

Returns:

true if a collection has 0 rows or is null

formatDate

public static org.joda.time.DateTime formatDate(String date,
                                                String pattern)

Formats a dateto a joda datetime according to pattern provided. If pattern is null, defaults to yyyy-MM-dd. Returns null if no date passed in

Parameters:

date - a date

pattern - e.g. MM/dd/yyyy

Returns:

the DateTime for the supplied date