[jsword-devel] SimpleOsisParser - parsing whole chapter refs

[DM Smith]

Meant to respond to your first email. This is needed. Hope to review it soon. Work is crazy.

The challenge with interpreting Gen.1 is that you have to know if it stands alone is the left part of a range or the right part of the range. When it stands alone it refers to the whole chapter, when it is the first part of a range it means the first verse of the chapter and if is the end of the range then it is the last verse of the range.

We also have the complication that of what the first verse or the whole chapter means. Does it include verse 0?

Since the start and the end of an OSIS range have to be valid OSIS refs the parsing of a range is much easier than user input ranges which might be like Gen 1:2-5. The -5 is ambiguous and has to be interpreted in context of what stands in front of it.

-- DM

On Aug 30, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have taken a stab at adding the above functionality to SimpleOsisParser so that it can also parse refs like 'Gen.1', 'Gen.1-Gen.3', 'Obad.1'.  I would like to make the methods non-static but tried to make as few changes as possible to the existing code but it may be that this enhancement necessitates some refactoring.
> 
> Can somebody review the attached code and say if it is acceptable?
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 30 August 2014 15:23, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any plans to extend the SimpleOsisParser to be able to parse chapter references like "Gen.1" instead of just verse references e.g. "Gen.1.1" or verse range references e.g. "Gen.1.1-Gen.1.3"?
> 
> The following fails so I can't parse a reference to the whole of Genesis 1 easily:
> 
>         assertEquals("Gen.1", SimpleOsisParser.parseOsisRef(testV11n, "Gen.1").getOsisRef());
> 
> other than by entering "Gen.1.1-Gen.1.31" which, funnily enough, returns the Osis I originally tried to enter "Gen.1".
> 
> Martin
> 
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