src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/utils/Charsets.java

package org.apache.commons.compress.utils;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException;

/**
 * Charsets required of every implementation of the Java platform.
 * 
 * From the Java documentation <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
 * charsets</a>:
 * <p>
 * <cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the
 * release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. Consult the release
 * documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. </cite>
 * </p>
 * 
 * <ul>
 * <li><code>US-ASCII</code><br/>
 * Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.</li>
 * <li><code>ISO-8859-1</code><br/>
 * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.</li>
 * <li><code>UTF-8</code><br/>
 * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.</li>
 * <li><code>UTF-16BE</code><br/>
 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.</li>
 * <li><code>UTF-16LE</code><br/>
 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.</li>
 * <li><code>UTF-16</code><br/>
 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order
 * accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)</li>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * This perhaps would best belong in the Commons Lang project. Even if a similar class is defined in Commons Lang, it is
 * not foreseen that Commons Codec would be made to depend on Commons Lang.
 * 
 * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
 * @author Apache Software Foundation
 * @since 1.4
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class Charsets {
    
    //
    // This class should only contain Charset instances for required encodings. This guarantees that it will load correctly and
    // without delay on all Java platforms.
    //
    
    /**
     * Returns the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null. 
     * 
     * @param charset
     *            A charset or null.
     * @return the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null
     */
    public static Charset toCharset(Charset charset) {
        return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : charset;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a Charset for the named charset. If the name is null, return the default Charset.
     * 
     * @param charset
     *            The name of the requested charset, may be null.
     * @return a Charset for the named charset
     * @throws UnsupportedCharsetException
     *             If the named charset is unavailable
     */
    public static Charset toCharset(String charset) {
        return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : Charset.forName(charset);
    }

    /**
     * CharsetNamesISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1. </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.ISO_8859_1);

    /**
     * <p>
     * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset US_ASCII = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.US_ASCII);

    /**
     * <p>
     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark
     * (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset UTF_16 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16);

    /**
     * <p>
     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset UTF_16BE = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16BE);

    /**
     * <p>
     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset UTF_16LE = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16LE);

    /**
     * <p>
     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
     */
    public static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_8);
}