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package com.andreasfink.utils.text;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.mozilla.universalchardet.UniversalDetector;

import com.google.common.io.Closeables;

/**
 * Detect charsets using <a href="http://code.google.com/p/juniversalchardet/">http://code.google.com/p/juniversalchardet/</a><br>
 * In cases of UTF-8/16 where the content is short and no BOM prepended <code>null</code> might be returned.
 * You want to check for <code>null</code> and supply a default encoding in that case.
 * 
 * TODO create maven project for juniversalchardet, its sources are included here for now.
 * 
 * @author oss@andreasfink.com
 */
public class Charsets {

    public static String detectCharset(final File file) {
        final FileInputStream fis;

        try {
            fis = new FileInputStream(file);
        } catch (final FileNotFoundException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to detect charset!", e);
        }

        final String encoding = detectCharset(fis);
        Closeables.closeQuietly(fis);

        return encoding;
    }

    public static String detectCharset(final InputStream stream) {
        final byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
        final UniversalDetector detector = new UniversalDetector(null);

        try {
            int nread;
            while ((nread = stream.read(buf)) > 0 && !detector.isDone()) {
                detector.handleData(buf, 0, nread);
            }
            detector.dataEnd();
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Unable to detect charset!", e);
        }

        final String encoding = detector.getDetectedCharset();
        detector.reset();

        return encoding;
    }

}