http://metrics.dropwizard.io/metrics-graphite: A reporter for Metrics which announces measurements to a Graphite server.
  • Coda Hale
  • Ryan Tenney
  • Artem Prigoda 
package com.codahale.metrics.graphite;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

class GraphiteSanitize {

    private static final Pattern WHITESPACE = Pattern.compile("[\\s]+");
    private static final String DASH = "-";

    
Trims the string and replaces all whitespace characters with the provided symbol

/**
     * Trims the string and replaces all whitespace characters with the provided symbol
     */
    static String sanitize(String string) {
        return WHITESPACE.matcher(string.trim()).replaceAll(DASH);
    }
}