[GitHub] commons-lang pull request #213: LANG-1288: Add a builder to StringEscapeUtil...

[britter]

Github user britter commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/213#discussion_r88745205
  
    --- Diff: src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.java ---
    @@ -429,6 +429,65 @@ public StringEscapeUtils() {
           super();
         }
     
    +    /**
    +     * <p>Convenience wrapper for {@link java.lang.StringBuilder} 
providing escape methods.</p>
    +     *
    +     * <p>Example:</p>
    +     * <pre>
    +     * new Builder(ESCAPE_HTML4)
    +     *      .append("&lt;p>")
    +     *      .escape("This is paragraph 1 and special chars like &amp; get 
escaped.")
    +     *      .append("&lt;/p>&lt;p>")
    +     *      .escape("This is paragraph 2 &amp; more...")
    +     *      .append("&lt;/p>")
    +     *      .toString()
    +     * </pre>
    +     * 
    +     * @since 3.6
    +     */
    +    public static class Builder {
    +
    +        private final StringBuilder sb;
    +        private final CharSequenceTranslator translator;
    +
    +        public Builder(final CharSequenceTranslator translator) {
    --- End diff --
    
    I'd rather have a private constructor and then put a static factory method 
into `StringEscapeUtils` instead of having the inner class that one needs to 
construct like `new StringEscapeUtils.Builder(ESCAPE)`


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