Hstore PGObject class

Hi,

I recently implemented hstore class for project I work on and I decided
to share it with list. Ideally I would like this to become part of the
jdbc driver itself. Be warned tho, I am fairly new to Java so it might
be quite bad code.

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Regards
Petr Jelinek (PJMODOS)

package org.postgresql.util;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

/**
 * Class that handles hstore contrib datatype.
 */
public class PGhstore extends PGobject
    implements Map<String,String> {

    private LinkedHashMap<String,String> hashList;

    public PGhstore()
    {
        setType("hstore");
    }

    public PGhstore(String value) throws java.sql.SQLException
    {
        this();
        setValue(value);
    }

    public PGhstore(Map<? extends String, ? extends String> value)
    {
        this();
        hashList = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>(value);
    }

    @Override
    public void setValue(String s) throws java.sql.SQLException
    {
        hashList = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>();

        if (s != null)
        {
            char[] chars = s.toCharArray();
            String key = null;
            StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
            boolean insideKey = true;
            boolean insideVal = false;
            boolean insideString = false;

            for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++)
            {
                // escape character that we need to skip
                if (chars[i] == '\\')
                {
                    i++;
                }

                // white space
                else if (!insideString && Character.isWhitespace(chars[i]))
                {
                    continue;
                }

                // the => between key and value
                else if (!insideString && chars[i] == '=')
                {
                    i++;
                    if (i == chars.length)
                        throw new PSQLException("Unexpected end of string", PSQLState.DATA_ERROR);

                    if (!insideKey || chars[i] != '>')
                        throw new PSQLException("Syntax error at position "+i, PSQLState.DATA_ERROR);

                    insideKey = false;
                    insideVal = true;

                    key = buffer.toString();
                    buffer.setLength(0);

                    continue;
                }

                // quote, item separator or last quote
                else if (chars[i] == '"' || (!insideString && chars[i] == ','))
                {
                    if (chars[i] == '"')
                    {
                        insideString = !insideString;
                        if (i != chars.length - 1)
                            continue;
                    }
                    else if (chars[i] != ',' && buffer != null)
                    {
                        buffer.append(chars[i]);
                    }

                    String b = (buffer == null) ? null : buffer.toString();

                    // end of element, add it to list
                    if (b != null && (b.length() > 0 || insideVal))
                    {
                        hashList.put(key, !insideVal && b.equalsIgnoreCase("NULL") ? null : b);
                    }

                    insideKey = true;
                    insideVal = false;
                    buffer = new StringBuffer();

                    continue;
                }

                if (buffer != null)
                    buffer.append(chars[i]);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public String getValue()
    {
        if (hashList == null)
            return null;

        Iterator<Entry<String,String>> iter = hashList.entrySet().iterator();
        if (!iter.hasNext())
            return null;

        Entry e = iter.next();
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer("\""+e.getKey()+"\"=>\""+(e.getValue() == null ? "NULL" :
e.getValue())+"\"");

        while (iter.hasNext())
        {
            e = iter.next();
            buffer.append(",\""+e.getKey()+"\"=>\""+(e.getValue() == null ? "NULL" : e.getValue())+"\"");
        }

        return buffer.toString();
    }


    public Collection<String> values() {
        return hashList.values();
    }

    public int size() {
        return hashList.size();
    }

    public String remove(Object key) {
        return hashList.remove(key);
    }

    public void putAll(Map<? extends String, ? extends String> m) {
        hashList.putAll(m);
    }

    public String put(String key, String value) {
        return hashList.put(key, value);
    }

    public Set<String> keySet() {
        return hashList.keySet();
    }

    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return hashList.isEmpty();
    }

    public Set<Entry<String, String>> entrySet() {
        return hashList.entrySet();
    }

    public boolean containsKey(Object key) {
        return hashList.containsKey(key);
    }

    public String get(Object key) {
        return hashList.get(key);
    }

    public boolean containsValue(Object value) {
        return hashList.containsValue(value);
    }

    public void clear() {
        hashList.clear();
    }

}