From ec42be940281d29e8b629882fdcd8e650609c0a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Costantino Perciante <costantino.perciante@isti.cnr.it>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:04:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added method to remove html tags

git-svn-id: https://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/social-networking/social-util-library@148716 82a268e6-3cf1-43bd-a215-b396298e98cf
---
 distro/changelog.xml                               |  8 +++++++-
 pom.xml                                            |  2 +-
 .../social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java | 14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
index 6a8eaba..fe4ce8a 100644
--- a/distro/changelog.xml
+++ b/distro/changelog.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 <ReleaseNotes>
+	<Changeset component="org.gcube.socialnetworking.social-util-library.1-2-0"
+		date="2017-04-13">
+		<Change>Added method to remove html tags from a text (useful for #247)
+		</Change>
+	</Changeset>
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.socialnetworking.social-util-library.1-1-0"
 		date="2017-04-13">
-		<Change>Bug #8063, Share Updates links are truncated in some cases</Change>
+		<Change>Bug #8063, Share Updates links are truncated in some cases
+		</Change>
 	</Changeset>
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.socialnetworking.social-util-library.1-0-1"
 		date="2016-10-01">
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 55a137d..bac13eb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>org.gcube.socialnetworking</groupId>
 	<artifactId>social-util-library</artifactId>
-	<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>social-util-library</name>
 	<description>
 	The social-util-library contains utility functions that can be used by the social-networking portlets.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
index e8fe217..34d5212 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
@@ -352,4 +352,18 @@ public class Utils {
 		description = ((description.length() > 256) ? description.substring(0, 256)+"..." : description);
 		return description;
 	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Remove HTML tags from text by using the following '\\<[^>]*>"'
+	 * @param text
+	 * @return a String without html tags
+	 */
+	public static String removeHTMLFromText(String text){
+		
+		if(text == null)
+			return null;
+		else
+			return text.replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>","");
+		
+	}
 }