/**
* Determines a unique suffix for the given name that will make the item name unique.
*
* @param item Item to generate a name for
* @param name Name to use as base for the new name
* @return The suffix ("1", "2", ... according to names like "name", "name2", ...) or null if the
* supplied name is already unique
*/
public String determineUniqueSuffix(final Item item, final String name) {
Model model = item.getModel();
String itemType = item.getItemType();
Iterator itemIterator = model.getItems(itemType);
List items = new ArrayList();
CollectionUtil.addAll(items, itemIterator);
String result = NamedObjectCollectionUtil.createUniqueId(items, name);
if (result.equals(name)) return null;
return result.substring(name.length());
}
/**
* This method tokenizes the passed string using the given separator and returns the resulting
* fragment as a String array.
*
* @param string The string to be tokenized
* @param separator The separator
* @param trim true The tokens have been trimmed before the were added<br>
* false The raw tokens will be used
* @return The fragments of the string
*/
public static String[] tokenize(String string, String separator, boolean trim) {
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(string, separator);
ArrayList parts = new ArrayList();
while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
String token = tokenizer.nextToken();
if (trim) token = token.trim();
parts.add(token);
}
return CollectionUtil.toStringArray(parts);
}
