package de.intevation.flys.importer.parsers;

import java.io.File;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;


public abstract class LineParser {

    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(LineParser.class);

    public static final String ENCODING = "ISO-8859-1";

    public static final Locale DEFAULT_LOCALE = Locale.GERMAN;

    public static final String START_META_CHAR = "#";
    public static final String SEPERATOR_CHAR  = ";";


    protected abstract void handleLine(String line);

    protected abstract void reset();

    protected abstract void finish();


    /**
     * This method reads each line of <i>file</i>. At the beginning,
     * <i>reset()</i> is called; afterwars for each line <i>handleLine()</i> is
     * called; at the end <i>finish</i> is called.
     *
     * @param file The file which should be parsed.
     */
    public void parse(File file) throws IOException {
        log.info("Parsing file '" + file + "'");

        reset();

        LineNumberReader in = null;
        try {
            in =
                new LineNumberReader(
                new InputStreamReader(
                new FileInputStream(file), ENCODING));

            String line = null;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                if ((line = line.trim()).length() == 0) {
                    continue;
                }

                handleLine(line);
            }
        }
        finally {
            if (in != null) {
                in.close();
            }
        }

        finish();
    }


    protected static String stripMetaLine(String line) {
        String tmp = line.substring(1, line.length());

        if (tmp.startsWith(" ")) {
            return tmp.substring(1, tmp.length());
        }
        else {
            return tmp;
        }
    }


    public static Date getDateFromYear(int year) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.set(year, 0, 1);

        return cal.getTime();
    }
}
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