Merge branch 'java8' into appengine_plus_dev

Author: gubi

.gitignore

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+WEB-INF/appengine-generated/

WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml

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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
-xsi:schemaLocation="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0 http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1.2.1/java/docs/appengine-web.xsd">
+<appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0 http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1.2.1/java/docs/appengine-web.xsd">
     <!--<application>cropontology-curationtool</application>-->
     <application>cropontology-curationtool</application>
     <version>1</version>
     <public-root>/public</public-root>
     <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled>
     <threadsafe>true</threadsafe>
+    <url-stream-handler>urlfetch</url-stream-handler>
+    <runtime>java8</runtime>
+  
+    <!-- Commented on pull request #65 -->
+    <!-- 2018-09-11 -->
+    <!--
     <automatic-scaling>
     	<max-concurrent-requests>50</max-concurrent-requests>
   	</automatic-scaling>
+    -->
 </appengine-web-app>

common/functions.js

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+/**
+ * Common functions
+ **/
+var languages = require("./languages.js");
+
+/**
+ * Remove a specific value from a given array
+ * @param  array                  array                           The array to clean
+ * @param  value                  string                          The value to remove
+ * @return array                                                  The cleaned array
+ **/
+exports.array_clean = function(array, value) {
+	return jQuery.grep(array, function(val) {
+		return val != value;
+	});
+};
+
+/**
+ * Replace a specific value from a given object
+ * @param  array                  array                           The array to clean
+ * @param  value                  string                          The value to remove
+ * @return array                                                  The cleaned array
+ **/
+exports.object_key_replace = function(search, replace, object) {
+	var new_obj = {};
+
+	if(object.toString().indexOf("{") > 0) {
+		object = object.getValue();
+	}
+
+	var obj = JSON.parse(object);
+	for(var k in obj) {
+		if(k == "undefined") {
+			switch(replace) {
+				case null:	obj = obj['undefined'];							break;
+				case "":	obj[languages.default] = obj['undefined'];		break;
+			}
+		}
+   }
+   delete obj['undefined'];
+   log(JSON.stringify(obj));
+   return JSON.stringify(obj);
+};