TextFile2Collection

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import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
import org.asapframework.util.forms.EventLoadVars;
import org.asapframework.events.Dispatcher;

/**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Base class that takes a text file url, loads the file data and converts the text contents to a collection structure (Tree or Array). Actual parsing is not provided in this class, see the subclasses for implementations.
@author Arthur Clemens
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

class data.filedatatransform.TextFile2Collection extends Dispatcher {
    
    private var mCollection:Object;
    private var mListener:Object;
    private var mFileUrl:String;
    
    /**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Creates a TextFile2Collection instance.
    @param inFileUrl: url of the text file with data to parse
    @param inListener: (optional) object that receives a 'finished' event after parsing (see subclasses for event types, for instance {@link TextFile2TreeEvent}; most likely the listener will be the invoker of this constructor
    @param inCollection: (optional) existing object to store the data in; if not provided a new object will be created
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    public function TextFile2Collection (inFileUrl:String,
                                         inListener:Object,
                                         inCollection:Object) 
    {
        if (inCollection != undefined) {
            mCollection = inCollection;
        }
        if (inListener != undefined) {
            mListener = inListener;
        }
        mFileUrl = inFileUrl;
    }
    
    /**
    Loads the text file and starts the parser.
    */
    public function load () : Void {
        var lv:EventLoadVars = new EventLoadVars();
        lv.addListener(this);
        lv.load(mFileUrl, lv, "GET");
    }
    
    /**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Invoked by EventLoadVars when data is received.
    @param inLoadVars: the EventLoadVars object
    @param inSource: the file data
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    private function onEventLoadVarsData (inLoadVars:EventLoadVars,
                                          inSource:String) : Void
    {
        parse(inSource);
    }
    
    /**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    The text data parsing method - implemented by subclasses.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    private function parse (inSource:String) : Void
    {
        // parsing is implemented by subclass
        notifyFinished(); // method that should always be called by the subclass after parsing
    }

    /**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Sends 'finished' message - implemented by subclasses.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    private function notifyFinished () : Void
    {
        // implemented by subclass
    }
    
}