private String beginMultiLineCommentFilter()

in maven-jxr/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/jxr/JavaCodeTransform.java [737:766]

• 18 lines of code
• 7 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private String beginMultiLineCommentFilter(String line) {
        // assert !inJavadocComment;
        // assert !inMultiLineComment;

        if (line == null || line.equals("")) {
            return "";
        }

        int index = line.indexOf("/*");
        // check to see if a multi-line comment starts on this line:
        if ((index > -1) && !isInsideString(line, index)) {
            String fromIndex = line.substring(index);
            if (fromIndex.startsWith("/**") && !(fromIndex.startsWith("/**/"))) {
                inJavadocComment = true;
            } else {
                inMultiLineComment = true;
            }
            // Return result of other filters + everything after the start
            // of the multiline comment. We need to pass the through the
            // to the ongoing multiLineComment filter again in case the comment
            // ends on the same line.
            return stringFilter(line.substring(0, index)) + ongoingMultiLineCommentFilter(fromIndex);
        }

        // Otherwise, no useful multi-line comment information was found so
        // pass the line down to the next filter for processesing.
        else {
            return stringFilter(line);
        }
    }