Package io.github.rabinarayanpatra.sanitizer.builtin

Class CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer

java.lang.Object

io.github.rabinarayanpatra.sanitizer.builtin.CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

FieldSanitizer<String>

public class CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer
extends Object
implements FieldSanitizer<String>

Sanitizer that trims leading and trailing whitespace and collapses internal whitespace sequences into a single space.

Useful for cleaning up user input where excessive spacing may be present, such as names or addresses.

 
 String input = "  John   Doe  ";
 String sanitized = new CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer().sanitize(input); // "John Doe"
 
 

Since:

1.0.0

See Also:

• TrimSanitizer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer()	Default constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
@Nullable String	sanitize(@Nullable String in)	Trims the input and replaces all runs of whitespace with a single space.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer

public CollapseWhitespaceSanitizer()

Default constructor.

Method Details

sanitize

public @Nullable String sanitize(@Nullable String in)

Trims the input and replaces all runs of whitespace with a single space.

Specified by:

sanitize in interface FieldSanitizer<String>

Parameters:

in - the input string to sanitize

Returns:

the sanitized string, or null if the input was null