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+/*
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+ *
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+package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.metamata;
+
+import java.util.Vector;
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.RegexpMatcher;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.RegexpMatcherFactory;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Parser that will parse an output line of MAudit and return an
+ * interpreted violation if any.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * MAudit is supposed to be configured with -fullpath so that it can
+ * correctly locate the file and attribute violation to the appropriate
+ * file (there might be several classes with the same name in
+ * different packages)
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:sbailliez@apache.org">Stephane Bailliez</a>
+ */
+final class MAuditParser {
+
+    /** pattern used by maudit to report the error for a file */
+    /** RE does not seems to support regexp pattern with comments so i'm stripping it*/
+    // (?:file:)?((?#filepath).+):((?#line)\\d+)\\s*:\\s+((?#message).*)
+    private final static String AUDIT_PATTERN = "(?:file:)?(.+):(\\d+)\\s*:\\s+(.*)";
+
+    /** matcher that will be used to extract the info from the line */
+    private final RegexpMatcher matcher;
+
+    MAuditParser(){
+        /** the matcher should be the Oro one. I don't know about the other one */
+        matcher = (new RegexpMatcherFactory()).newRegexpMatcher();
+        matcher.setPattern(AUDIT_PATTERN);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parse a line obtained from MAudit.
+     * @param line a line obtained from the MAudit output.
+     * @return the violation corresponding to the displayed line
+     * or <tt>null</tt> if it could not parse it. (might be a
+     * message info or copyright or summary).
+     */
+    Violation parseLine(String line){
+        Vector matches = matcher.getGroups(line);
+        if (matches == null){
+            return null;
+        }
+        final String file = (String) matches.elementAt(1);
+        Violation violation = new Violation();
+        violation.file = file;
+        violation.line = (String) matches.elementAt(2);
+        violation.error = (String) matches.elementAt(3);
+        // remove the pathname from any messages and let the classname only.
+        final int pos = file.lastIndexOf(File.separatorChar);
+        if ((pos != -1) && (pos != file.length() - 1)) {
+            String filename = file.substring(pos + 1);
+            violation.error = StringUtils.replace(violation.error,
+                    "file:" + file, filename);
+        }
+        return violation;
+    }
+
+    /** the inner class used to report violation information */
+    final static class Violation {
+        String file;
+        String line;
+        String error;
+    }
+}