By this time you should have been introduced to Java Strings, Exceptions, Unit Testing, and Regex.
In this project you will find a file in the resource folder called RawData.txt. It was supposed to be a grocery list formatted in JSON, but The Baron your fearless leader decided to come reformat it in his own Object Notation. JerkSON... you are welcome.
Just like Json , JerkSON is supposed to be a Key Value Pair data store.
In Json Key and Value are seperated as such (Key:Value) where the colon is the separator.
In JerkSON Key and Value could be separated by using a any of the following (:, @, ^, *, %) and there is no guarantee that there isn't another hidden symbol seperator. (There could be another one, or maybe there isn't , you tell me)... lol
In Json Key and Value pairs are separated by a ',' in JerkSON its '##'
Its your job to build a JerkSON data parser, that is able to read in the raw data , and output a string formated list that resembles (outputFormat.txt)
There are some things to look out for.... If you haven't figured it out by now The Baron has many wonderful qualities, spelling isn't one of them, so Words may not be spelled correctly. You need to decipher what The Baron was trying to spell using pattern matching.
for example:
In the shopping list The Barron has Cookies, but he could spell like Cookies, c00Kies, Co0kies and so on.
You must use regex to detect the patterns and match them.
Oh one more thing.... The Barron is kind of petty... so you can blame Abi and Vic for this.
It's not guranteed that every Key will have a Value, and every Value will have a pair. For instance:
you may see something like this
Name:Milk;Price:3.23;type:;expiration:1/24/2016##
Notice how TYPE has a key but no Value.... if you try and parse this into an object your program could crash.
You will need to handle your exceptions!
I also expect you to report on how many exceptions you saw while parsing the data.
Amigo Boat