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+/*\r
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 The Mir-coders group\r
+ *\r
+ * This file is part of Mir.\r
+ *\r
+ * Mir is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify\r
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by\r
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or\r
+ * (at your option) any later version.\r
+ *\r
+ * Mir is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\r
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\r
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the\r
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.\r
+ *\r
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\r
+ * along with Mir; if not, write to the Free Software\r
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA\r
+ *\r
+ * In addition, as a special exception, The Mir-coders gives permission to link\r
+ * the code of this program with  any library licensed under the Apache Software License,\r
+ * The Sun (tm) Java Advanced Imaging library (JAI), The Sun JIMI library\r
+ * (or with modified versions of the above that use the same license as the above),\r
+ * and distribute linked combinations including the two.  You must obey the\r
+ * GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than\r
+ * the above mentioned libraries.  If you modify this file, you may extend this\r
+ * exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.\r
+ * If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.\r
+ */\r
+package mir.util;\r
+\r
+import mir.entity.Entity;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * Utility methods for entity manipulation\r
+ */\r
+public class EntityUtility {\r
+  /**\r
+   * This class should never get instances\r
+   */\r
+  private EntityUtility() {\r
+\r
+  }\r
+\r
+  /**\r
+   * Helper method to append a line to a field\r
+   */\r
+  public static void appendLineToField(Entity anEntity, String aFieldName, String aLine) {\r
+    StringBuffer fieldContent = new StringBuffer();\r
+    try {\r
+      fieldContent.append(StringRoutines.interpretAsString(anEntity.getFieldValue(aFieldName)));\r
+    }\r
+    catch (Throwable t) {\r
+    }\r
+    if (fieldContent.length() > 0 && fieldContent.charAt(fieldContent.length() - 1) != '\n') {\r
+      fieldContent.append('\n');\r
+    }\r
+\r
+    fieldContent.append(aLine);\r
+    anEntity.setFieldValue(aFieldName, fieldContent.toString());\r
+  }\r
+}\r