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Java Tip #8: Use StringUtils for concatenating Strings from Arrays or Lists

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And we’re continuing with our next Java Tip. Back on using frameworks for our convenience, I present another often useful possibility to let the StringUtils handle lots of work for you.

##Advice Use Apache StringUtils for concatenating Strings from Arrays or Lists, also when you need to delimit them with an arbitrary string.

##Code-Example Before

...
SQL_WHERE += " AND V.cat_display_name IN (";
boolean addComma = false;
for (String category : filter.getCategories()) {
  if (addComma) {
    SQL_WHERE += ", ";
  }
  SQL_WHERE += "'" + category + "'";
  addComma = true;
}
SQL_WHERE += ") ";
...

...
String SQL = "";
for(String category: filter.getCategories()) {
    SQL += val + ", ";
}
SQL = SQL.substring(0, SQL.length()-2);
....

After

...         
SQL_WHERE += " AND V.cat_display_name IN (";
SQL_WHERE += "'" + StringUtils.join(filter.getCategories(), "', '") + "'";
SQL_WHERE += ") ";
...

##Benefit Huge readability gain and a safety gain. The code and intention is much clearer and the possibility to hide bugs in the loop-logic (which I have seen often) is not present. Also, depending on the length of the Array or List, it may also present a small performance gain (see Java Tip #2) but that’s in most such cases neglibigle.

##Remarks None.

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