private boolean parseHeader()

in tika-parsers/tika-parsers-standard/tika-parsers-standard-modules/tika-parser-news-module/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/iptc/IptcAnpaParser.java [362:456]
79 lines of code
29 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private boolean parseHeader(byte[] value, HashMap<String, String> properties) {
        boolean added = false;

        String env_serviceid = "";
        String env_category = "";
        String env_urgency = "";
        String hdr_edcode = "";
        StringBuilder hdr_subject = new StringBuilder();
        StringBuilder hdr_date = new StringBuilder();
        StringBuilder hdr_time = new StringBuilder();

        int read = 0;

        while (read < value.length) {

            // pull apart the envelope, getting the service id  (....\x1f)
            while (read < value.length) {
                byte val_next = value[read++];
                if (val_next != FS) {
                    env_serviceid +=
                            (char) (val_next & 0xff);  // convert the byte to an unsigned int
                } else {
                    break;
                }
            }

            // pull apart the envelope, getting the category  (....\x13\x11)
            while (read < value.length) {
                byte val_next = value[read++];
                if (val_next != XS) {   // the end of the envelope is marked (\x13)
                    env_category +=
                            (char) (val_next & 0xff);  // convert the byte to an unsigned int
                } else {
                    val_next = value[read];  // get the remaining byte (\x11)
                    if (val_next == XQ) {
                        read++;
                    }
                    break;
                }
            }

            // pull apart the envelope, getting the subject heading
            while (read < value.length) {
                boolean subject = true;
                byte val_next = value[read++];
                while ((subject) && (val_next != SP) &&
                        (val_next != 0x00)) {  // ignore the envelope subject
                    hdr_subject.append((char) (val_next & 0xff));  // convert the byte to an unsigned int
                    val_next = (read < value.length) ? value[read++] : 0x00;
                    while (val_next == SP) {  // consume all the spaces
                        subject = false;
                        val_next = (read < value.length) ? value[read++] : 0x00;
                        if (val_next != SP) {
                            --read;  // otherwise we eat into the next section
                        }
                    }
                }
                if (!subject) {
                    break;
                }
            }

            // pull apart the envelope, getting the date and time
            while (read < value.length) {
                byte val_next = value[read++];
                if (hdr_date.isEmpty()) {
                    while (((val_next >= (byte) 0x30) && (val_next <= (byte) 0x39))
                            // consume all numerics and hyphens
                            || (val_next == HY)) {
                        hdr_date.append((char) (val_next & 0xff));  // convert the byte to an unsigned int
                        val_next = (read < value.length) ? value[read++] : 0x00;
                    }
                } else if (val_next == SP) {
                    while (val_next == SP) {  // consume all the spaces
                        val_next = (read < value.length) ? value[read++] : 0x00;
                    }
                    continue;
                } else {
                    while (((val_next >= (byte) 0x30) && (val_next <= (byte) 0x39))
                            // consume all numerics and hyphens
                            || (val_next == HY)) {
                        hdr_time.append((char) (val_next & 0xff));  // convert the byte to an unsigned int
                        val_next = (read < value.length) ? value[read++] : 0x00;
                    }
                }
            }
            break; // don't let this run back through and start thrashing metadata
        }

        // if we were saving any of these values, we would set the properties map here

        added = (env_serviceid.length() + env_category.length() + hdr_subject.length() +
                hdr_date.length() + hdr_time.length()) > 0;
        return added;
    }