lumis.portal.urlshortener
Class GoogleURLShortener

java.lang.Object
  lumis.portal.urlshortener.GoogleURLShortener

All Implemented Interfaces:

IURLShortener

public class GoogleURLShortener
extends java.lang.Object

IURLShortener that uses Google URL shortening service (Goo.gl). Besides the API URL, the Google service requires an API key.

Since:

6.1.0

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	PARAMETER_API_KEY API key property bag key.
static java.lang.String	PARAMETER_URL This is the URL parameter to be used in API URLs.

Constructor Summary

GoogleURLShortener()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	expand(java.lang.String url) Expands the given URL.
java.lang.String	getApiKey() Returns the API key from the parameters.
protected java.lang.String	getApiURL() Returns the URL shortener API URL to be used.
protected java.lang.String	postData(java.lang.String url) Post data to Google's shortening service and returns the parsed shortened URL.
java.lang.String	shorten(java.lang.String url) Shortens a given URL.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

PARAMETER_API_KEY

public static final java.lang.String PARAMETER_API_KEY

API key property bag key.

Since:

6.1.0

See Also:

Constant Field Values

PARAMETER_URL

public static final java.lang.String PARAMETER_URL

This is the URL parameter to be used in API URLs. This parameter will be replaced by the URL to be shortened.

Since:

6.1.0

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

GoogleURLShortener

public GoogleURLShortener()

Method Detail

getApiURL

protected java.lang.String getApiURL()

Returns the URL shortener API URL to be used.

Returns:

shorten

public java.lang.String shorten(java.lang.String url)
                         throws PortalException

Description copied from interface: IURLShortener

Shortens a given URL.

Specified by:

shorten in interface IURLShortener

Parameters:

url - the URL to be shortened.

Returns:

the shortened URL.

Throws:

PortalException - if some error occur in shortening process.

postData

protected java.lang.String postData(java.lang.String url)
                             throws java.lang.Exception

Post data to Google's shortening service and returns the parsed shortened URL.

Parameters:

url - the long URL.

Returns:

the shortened URL.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

Since:

6.1.0

getApiKey

public java.lang.String getApiKey()
                           throws PortalException

Returns the API key from the parameters.

Returns:

the API key from the parameters.

Throws:

PortalException - if the API key is not set in parameters.

Since:

6.1.0

expand

public java.lang.String expand(java.lang.String url)
                        throws PortalException

Expands the given URL.

Parameters:

url - the URL to be expanded.

Returns:

the expanded URL.

Throws:

PortalException