Package com.atlassian.crowd.util

Class UserUtils

java.lang.Object

com.atlassian.crowd.util.UserUtils

public class UserUtils
extends Object

General utility class for email related methods.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
UserUtils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static boolean	isValidEmail(String email)	Deprecated. use EmailAddressValidator.
static User	populateNames(User user)	Ensures that the first name, last name and displayName of the user object is fully populated.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

UserUtils

public UserUtils()

Method Details

isValidEmail

@Deprecated
public static boolean isValidEmail(String email)

Deprecated.

use EmailAddressValidator. Since 4.4.0.

Returns true if an email address is valid.

Parameters:

email - potential email address.

Returns:

true if an email address is valid.

populateNames

public static User populateNames(User user)

Ensures that the first name, last name and displayName of the user object is fully populated.

Examples:

Original data	Populated data
("jsmith", "John", "Smith", "John Smith")	("jsmith", "John", "Smith", "John Smith")
("jsmith", "", "", "John Smith")	("jsmith", "John", "Smith", "John Smith")
("jsmith", "John", "Smith", "")	("jsmith", "John", "Smith", "John Smith")
("jsmith", "", "", "")	("jsmith", "", "jsmith", "jsmith")
("jsmith", null, null, null)	("jsmith", "", "jsmith", "jsmith")

For more complicated cases, see the documentation for the other methods in this class.

Parameters:

user - potentially partially populated user. The username of the user cannot be blank.

Returns:

populated user with non-blank last name and displayName and non-null first name.

See Also:

• getDisplayName(String, String, String, String)
• getFirstName(String, String)
• getLastName(String, String)