protected List parsePattern()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastDatePrinter.java [1326:1470]
137 lines of code
40 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    protected List<Rule> parsePattern() {
        final DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols(locale);
        final List<Rule> rules = new ArrayList<>();

        final String[] ERAs = symbols.getEras();
        final String[] months = symbols.getMonths();
        final String[] shortMonths = symbols.getShortMonths();
        final String[] weekdays = symbols.getWeekdays();
        final String[] shortWeekdays = symbols.getShortWeekdays();
        final String[] AmPmStrings = symbols.getAmPmStrings();

        final int length = pattern.length();
        final int[] indexRef = new int[1];

        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            indexRef[0] = i;
            final String token = parseToken(pattern, indexRef);
            i = indexRef[0];

            final int tokenLen = token.length();
            if (tokenLen == 0) {
                break;
            }

            Rule rule;
            final char c = token.charAt(0);

            switch (c) {
            case 'G': // era designator (text)
                rule = new TextField(Calendar.ERA, ERAs);
                break;
            case 'y': // year (number)
            case 'Y': // week year
                if (tokenLen == 2) {
                    rule = TwoDigitYearField.INSTANCE;
                } else {
                    rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.YEAR, Math.max(tokenLen, 4));
                }
                if (c == 'Y') {
                    rule = new WeekYear((NumberRule) rule);
                }
                break;
            case 'M': // month in year (text and number)
                if (tokenLen >= 4) {
                    rule = new TextField(Calendar.MONTH, months);
                } else if (tokenLen == 3) {
                    rule = new TextField(Calendar.MONTH, shortMonths);
                } else if (tokenLen == 2) {
                    rule = TwoDigitMonthField.INSTANCE;
                } else {
                    rule = UnpaddedMonthField.INSTANCE;
                }
                break;
            case 'L': // month in year (text and number)
                if (tokenLen >= 4) {
                    rule = new TextField(Calendar.MONTH, CalendarUtils.getInstance(locale).getStandaloneLongMonthNames());
                } else if (tokenLen == 3) {
                    rule = new TextField(Calendar.MONTH, CalendarUtils.getInstance(locale).getStandaloneShortMonthNames());
                } else if (tokenLen == 2) {
                    rule = TwoDigitMonthField.INSTANCE;
                } else {
                    rule = UnpaddedMonthField.INSTANCE;
                }
                break;
            case 'd': // day in month (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'h': // hour in am/pm (number, 1..12)
                rule = new TwelveHourField(selectNumberRule(Calendar.HOUR, tokenLen));
                break;
            case 'H': // hour in day (number, 0..23)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'm': // minute in hour (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.MINUTE, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 's': // second in minute (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.SECOND, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'S': // millisecond (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.MILLISECOND, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'E': // day in week (text)
                rule = new TextField(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, tokenLen < 4 ? shortWeekdays : weekdays);
                break;
            case 'u': // day in week (number)
                rule = new DayInWeekField(selectNumberRule(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, tokenLen));
                break;
            case 'D': // day in year (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'F': // day of week in month (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'w': // week in year (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'W': // week in month (number)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'a': // am/pm marker (text)
                rule = new TextField(Calendar.AM_PM, AmPmStrings);
                break;
            case 'k': // hour in day (1..24)
                rule = new TwentyFourHourField(selectNumberRule(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, tokenLen));
                break;
            case 'K': // hour in am/pm (0..11)
                rule = selectNumberRule(Calendar.HOUR, tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'X': // ISO 8601
                rule = Iso8601_Rule.getRule(tokenLen);
                break;
            case 'z': // time zone (text)
                if (tokenLen >= 4) {
                    rule = new TimeZoneNameRule(timeZone, locale, TimeZone.LONG);
                } else {
                    rule = new TimeZoneNameRule(timeZone, locale, TimeZone.SHORT);
                }
                break;
            case 'Z': // time zone (value)
                if (tokenLen == 1) {
                    rule = TimeZoneNumberRule.INSTANCE_NO_COLON;
                } else if (tokenLen == 2) {
                    rule = Iso8601_Rule.ISO8601_HOURS_COLON_MINUTES;
                } else {
                    rule = TimeZoneNumberRule.INSTANCE_COLON;
                }
                break;
            case '\'': // literal text
                final String sub = token.substring(1);
                if (sub.length() == 1) {
                    rule = new CharacterLiteral(sub.charAt(0));
                } else {
                    rule = new StringLiteral(sub);
                }
                break;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal pattern component: " + token);
            }

            rules.add(rule);
        }

        return rules;
    }