public static Object remove()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/util/ValueUtils.java [223:277]
55 lines of code
12 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static Object remove(Object collection, final int index) {
        collection = getValue(collection);
        if (collection == null) {
            return null;
        }
        if (index >= getLength(collection)) {
            throw new JXPathException("No such element at index " + index);
        }
        if (collection.getClass().isArray()) {
            final int length = Array.getLength(collection);
            final Object smaller =
                Array.newInstance(
                    collection.getClass().getComponentType(),
                    length - 1);
            if (index > 0) {
                System.arraycopy(collection, 0, smaller, 0, index);
            }
            if (index < length - 1) {
                System.arraycopy(
                    collection,
                    index + 1,
                    smaller,
                    index,
                    length - index - 1);
            }
            return smaller;
        }
        if (collection instanceof List) {
            final int size = ((List) collection).size();
            if (index < size) {
                ((List) collection).remove(index);
            }
            return collection;
        }
        if (collection instanceof Collection) {
            final Iterator it = ((Collection) collection).iterator();
            for (int i = 0; i < index; i++) {
                if (!it.hasNext()) {
                    break;
                }
                it.next();
            }
            if (it.hasNext()) {
                it.next();
                it.remove();
            }
            return collection;
        }
        throw new JXPathException(
            "Cannot remove "
                + collection.getClass().getName()
                + "["
                + index
                + "]");
    }