User:Miriya52/week8

Refer to project glossary for acronyms and definitions. Week 8: January 23 - 27

Objectives

 * Implement functionality for reading in .txt file to parser. Pass test_gift_structures: (test_string, test_read_string, test_read_file))
 * Add more types to parser

While debugging functionality for reading in .txt file to parser, found that imported text is showing up in parser by the int representation.
File "/Users/annaliao/repos/pyslet/pyslet/gift/structures.py", line 1968, in read_from_entity parser.parse_document(self) File "/Users/annaliao/repos/pyslet/pyslet/gift/parser.py", line 512, in parse_document self.parse_element File "/Users/annaliao/repos/pyslet/pyslet/gift/parser.py", line 673, in parse_element self.parse_content File "/Users/annaliao/repos/pyslet/pyslet/gift/parser.py", line 749, in parse_content raise GIFTFatalError("parse_content: unexpected character, %s" % self.the_char) pyslet.gift.parser.GIFTFatalError: parse_content: unexpected character, 47

For example:

>>> parser.the_char 47 >>> parser.next_char >>> parser.the_char 47 >>> parser.next_char >>> parser.the_char 72 >>> parser.next_char >>> parser.the_char 101 >>> parser.next_char >>> parser.the_char 108

unicode conversion from file to parser. '/': https://unicode-table.com/en/#002F, &#47 'H': https://unicode-table.com/en/#0048, &#72 'e': https://unicode-table.com/en/#0065, &#101 'l': https://unicode-table.com/en/#006C, &#108

Fixed this issue by casting chr to get the unicode str representation of the int.

if isinstance(self.the_char, int): self.the_char = chr(self.the_char)

Not a good long term solution. Need to find where this is happening when reading in a file, or have a function for converting.

STATUS : test_gift_structures.test_string and test_gift_structures.test_read_file are the unittests for this functionality. These tests are not passing yet.

parser.parse_content
This is where the logic for parsing a GIFT formatted string occurs.

structures.escape_char_data
There are special control characters for the GIFT format, including '//', '::', '{', '=', '~'. These need to be addressed when parsing a GIFT formatted text. Specifically, when the quiz author intentionally wants it included in the text, and when it is an invalid use in the text.

Parser objects parse entities
From the reference XMLParser for gift.parser, I decided I need to revisit the GIFTentity unittests to make sure these structures objects are working as expected. GIFTentity objects act as context managers.

Summary

 * Point 1
 * Point 2

Plan for next week

 * Point 1
 * Point 2