public String getValue()

in xstream/src/java/com/thoughtworks/xstream/io/xml/AbstractPullReader.java [179:214]

• 30 lines of code
• 10 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public String getValue() {
        // we should collapse together any text which
        // contains comments

        // lets only use a string buffer when we get 2 strings
        // to avoid copying strings
        String last = null;
        StringBuffer buffer = null;

        mark();
        Event event = readEvent();
        while (true) {
            if (event.type == TEXT) {
                final String text = event.value;
                if (text != null && text.length() > 0) {
                    if (last == null) {
                        last = text;
                    } else {
                        if (buffer == null) {
                            buffer = new StringBuffer(last);
                        }
                        buffer.append(text);
                    }
                }
            } else if (event.type != COMMENT) {
                break;
            }
            event = readEvent();
        }
        reset();
        if (buffer != null) {
            return buffer.toString();
        } else {
            return last == null ? "" : last;
        }
    }