/**
* If a database componenet use an existing connection, its label may replace with variable from
* the existing connection not the component variable. see bug 0005456: Label Format __DBNAME__
* not valid when using existing connection
*
* @param text String that contains variables which need to replace
* @param variableMap A map contains variable name and IElementParameter in a pair
* @return
*/
public static String replaceWithExistingConnection(
String text, Map<String, IElementParameter> variableMap) {
if (text == null) {
return ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
}
String newText = text;
for (String var : variableMap.keySet()) {
if (newText.contains(var)) {
IElementParameter param = variableMap.get(var);
String value = ElementParameterParser.getDisplayValue(param);
newText = newText.replace(param.getVariableName(), value);
}
}
return newText;
}
