/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
 *
 * This file is part of Alfresco
 *
 * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
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 * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 * along with Alfresco. If not, see 
* While the short-string version of the value is always lowercase, the CRC is * calculated from the virgin string if case-sensitivity is enforced; in the case-insensitive * case, the CRC is calculated from a lowercase version of the string. *
     * If the value is an empty string, then {@link #EMPTY_STRING} is used instead.  This ensures
     * that persisted values don't fall foul of the Oracle empty string comparison "behaviour" i.e
     * you should never persist an empty string in Oracle as it equates to a SQL NULL.
     * 
     * @param value             the raw value that will be persisted
     * @param dataLength        the maximum number of characters that can be persisted
     * @param useCharsFromStart true if the shortened string value must be made from
     *                          the first characters of the string or false to use
     *                          characters from the end of the string.
     * @param caseSensitive     true if the resulting pair must be case-sensitive or
     *                          false if the pair must be case-insensitive.
     * @return                  Return the persistable pair.  The result will never be null,
     *                          but the individual pair values will be null if the
     *                          value given is null
     */
    public static Pair