private String saveConvert()

in gradle-runner-agent/src/main/java/jetbrains/buildServer/gradle/agent/propertySplit/GradleBuildProperties.java [48:104]
54 lines of code
18 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  private String saveConvert(String theString,
                             boolean escapeSpace,
                             boolean escapeUnicode) {
    int len = theString.length();
    int bufLen = len * 2;
    if (bufLen < 0) {
      bufLen = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    }
    StringBuffer outBuffer = new StringBuffer(bufLen);

    for(int x=0; x<len; x++) {
      char aChar = theString.charAt(x);
      // Handle common case first, selecting largest block that
      // avoids the specials below
      if ((aChar > 61) && (aChar < 127)) {
        if (aChar == '\\') {
          outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append('\\');
          continue;
        }
        outBuffer.append(aChar);
        continue;
      }
      switch(aChar) {
        case ' ':
          if (x == 0 || escapeSpace)
            outBuffer.append('\\');
          outBuffer.append(' ');
          break;
        case '\t':outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append('t');
          break;
        case '\n':outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append('n');
          break;
        case '\r':outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append('r');
          break;
        case '\f':outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append('f');
          break;
        case '=': // Fall through
        case ':': // Fall through
        case '#': // Fall through
        case '!':
          outBuffer.append('\\'); outBuffer.append(aChar);
          break;
        default:
          if (((aChar < 0x0020) || (aChar > 0x007e)) & escapeUnicode ) {
            outBuffer.append('\\');
            outBuffer.append('u');
            outBuffer.append(toHex((aChar >> 12) & 0xF));
            outBuffer.append(toHex((aChar >>  8) & 0xF));
            outBuffer.append(toHex((aChar >>  4) & 0xF));
            outBuffer.append(toHex( aChar        & 0xF));
          } else {
            outBuffer.append(aChar);
          }
      }
    }
    return outBuffer.toString();
  }