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package org.eclipse.jgit.diff;

public class DiffTestDataGenerator {
	/**
	 * Generate sequence of characters in ascending order. The first character
	 * is a space. All subsequent characters have an ASCII code one greater then
	 * the ASCII code of the preceding character. On exception: the character
	 * following which follows '~' is again a ' '.
	 *
	 * @param len
	 *            length of the String to be returned
	 * @return the sequence of characters as String
	 */
	public static String generateSequence(int len) {
		return generateSequence(len, 0, 0);
	}

	/**
	 * Generate sequence of characters similar to the one returned by
	 * {@link #generateSequence(int)}. But this time in each chunk of
	 * <skipPeriod> characters the last <skipLength> characters are left out. By
	 * calling this method twice with two different prime skipPeriod values and
	 * short skipLength values you create test data which is similar to what
	 * programmers do to their source code - huge files with only few
	 * insertions/deletions/changes.
	 *
	 * @param len
	 *            length of the String to be returned
	 * @param skipPeriod
	 * @param skipLength
	 * @return the sequence of characters as String
	 */
	public static String generateSequence(int len, int skipPeriod,
			int skipLength) {
		StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder(len);
		int skipStart = skipPeriod - skipLength;
		int skippedChars = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i - skippedChars < len; ++i) {
			if (skipPeriod == 0 || i % skipPeriod < skipStart) {
				text.append((char) (32 + i % 95));
			} else {
				skippedChars++;
			}
		}
		return text.toString();
	}
}