From 89e0b786d01246d1e8e57cc5da855372e27e7b63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Stöckel Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:28:36 +0100 Subject: Added function for parsing complete strings (as needed in the xml parser) --- src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp') diff --git a/src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp b/src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp index abf529c..8aaffd8 100644 --- a/src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp +++ b/src/core/common/VariantReader.hpp @@ -229,6 +229,26 @@ public: CharReader &reader, Logger &logger, const std::unordered_set &delims, bool extractUnescapedStrings = false); + + /** + * Tries to parse the most specific item from the given string. The + * resulting variant represents the value that has been read. If the end of + * the string was not reached while parsing an element, the result is + * returned as string. + * + * @param str is the string from which the value should be read. + * @param logger is the logger instance to which errors or warnings will be + * written. + * @return a pair indicating whether the operation was successful and the + * extracted variant value. Note that the variant value most times contains + * some meaningful data that can be worked with even if the operation was + * not successful (e.g. if a syntax error is encountered while reading an + * array, the successfully read elements will still be in the returned + * variant.) Information on why the operation has failed is passed to the + * logger. + */ + static std::pair parseGenericString( + const std::string &str, Logger &logger); }; } -- cgit v1.2.3