src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/shell/LogUtil.java

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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.shell;

/**
 * Utilities for logging.
 */
class LogUtil {

  private LogUtil() {}

  private final static int TRUNCATE_STRINGS_AT = 150;

  /**
   * Make a string out of a byte array, and truncate it to a reasonable length.
   * Useful for preventing logs from becoming excessively large.
   */
  static String toTruncatedString(final byte[] bytes) {
    if(bytes == null || bytes.length == 0) {
      return "";
    }
    /*
     * Yes, we'll use the platform encoding here, and this is one of the rare
     * cases where it makes sense. You want the logs to be encoded so that
     * your platform tools (vi, emacs, cat) can render them, don't you?
     * In practice, this means ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, I guess.
     */
    try {
      if (bytes.length > TRUNCATE_STRINGS_AT) {
        return new String(bytes, 0, TRUNCATE_STRINGS_AT)
          + "[... truncated. original size was " + bytes.length + " bytes.]";
      }
      return new String(bytes);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      /*
       * In case encoding a binary string doesn't work for some reason, we
       * don't want to bring a logging server down - do we? So we're paranoid.
       */
      return "IOUtil.toTruncatedString: " + e.getMessage();
    }
  }

}