org.jpos.iso
Interface Padder

All Known Implementing Classes:

LeftPadder, NullPadder, RightPadder, RightTPadder

public interface Padder

An interface for padding and unpadding strings and byte arrays.

Version:

$Revision: 2594 $ $Date: 2008-01-22 08:41:31 -0800 (Tue, 22 Jan 2008) $

Author:

joconnor

Method Summary

java.lang.String	pad(java.lang.String data, int maxLength) Returns a padded string upto a maximum length.
java.lang.String	unpad(java.lang.String paddedData) Removes the padding from a padded string.

Method Detail

pad

java.lang.String pad(java.lang.String data,
                     int maxLength)
                     throws ISOException

Returns a padded string upto a maximum length. If the data is longer than maxLength, then the data is truncated.

Parameters:

data - The string to pad.

maxLength - The maximum length of the padded string.

Returns:

A padded string.

Throws:

ISOException

unpad

java.lang.String unpad(java.lang.String paddedData)
                       throws ISOException

Removes the padding from a padded string.

Parameters:

paddedData - The string to unpad.

Returns:

The unpadded string.

Throws:

ISOException