[Javacavemaps-developers] parsing the data

[larry g. <lg...@co...>]

I have a pattern in mind which I will begin write stub code for parsing the
data from both the file, and text area as input.

You may look this pattern up, its called the Strategy Pattern.

Basically  we will have a ParseContext object
This object will select the Parse Strategy for the chunk of text that it is
parsing

Once this is finished it will work recursivly.

We will have a basic ParseStrategy object, and a subclass strategy for each
level in the tree.

And each strategy will build the model on its level and return that.

I think we can test all levels of this at once if we work it right. We can
return dummy objects until we get it fully working. or we can do the lower
levels first and work our way up.

By Levels I mean

Caves, Cave, Surveys, Survey, SurveyBranch, SurveyLine, SurveyStation