// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System;

namespace Microsoft.Web.Mvc
{
    internal static class ValueProviderUtil
    {
        public static bool IsPrefixMatch(string prefix, string testString)
        {
            if (testString == null)
            {
                return false;
            }

            if (prefix.Length == 0)
            {
                return true; // shortcut - non-null testString matches empty prefix
            }

            if (!testString.StartsWith(prefix, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                return false; // prefix doesn't match
            }

            if (testString.Length == prefix.Length)
            {
                return true; // exact match
            }

            // invariant: testString.Length > prefix.Length
            switch (testString[prefix.Length])
            {
                case '.':
                case '[':
                    return true; // known delimiters

                default:
                    return false; // not known delimiter
            }
        }
    }
}
