private static Object parseValue()

in src/main/java/org/apache/freemarker/onlinetester/util/DataModelParser.java [130:253]


    private static Object parseValue(String value, TimeZone timeZone) throws DataModelParsingException {
        // Note: Because we fall back to interpret the input as a literal string value when it doesn't look like
        // anything else (like a number, boolean, etc.), it's important to avoid misunderstandings, and throw exception
        // in suspicious situations. The user can always quote the string value if we are "too smart". But he will
        // be confused about the rules of FreeMarker if what he believes to be a non-string is misinterpreted by this
        // parser as a string. Getting sometimes an error and then quoting the string is better than that.
        
        if (value.endsWith(";")) {  // Tolerate this habit of Java and JavaScript programmers
            value = value.substring(value.length() - 1).trim();
        }
        
        if (NUMBER_LIKE.matcher(value).matches()) {
            try {
                return new BigDecimal(value);
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                // Maybe it's a ISO 8601 Date/time/datetime
                CalendarFieldsToDateConverter calToDateConverter = new TrivialCalendarFieldsToDateConverter();
                
                DateParseException attemptedTemportalPExc = null;
                String attemptedTemporalType = null;
                final int dashIdx = value.indexOf('-');
                final int colonIdx = value.indexOf(':');
                if (value.indexOf('T') > 1 || (dashIdx > 1 && colonIdx > dashIdx)) {
                    try {
                        return new Timestamp(
                                DateUtil.parseISO8601DateTime(value, timeZone, calToDateConverter).getTime());
                    } catch (DateParseException pExc) {
                        attemptedTemporalType = "date-time";
                        attemptedTemportalPExc = pExc;
                    }
                } else if (dashIdx > 1) {
                    try {
                        return new java.sql.Date(
                                DateUtil.parseISO8601Date(value, timeZone, calToDateConverter).getTime());
                    } catch (DateParseException pExc) {
                        attemptedTemporalType = "date";
                        attemptedTemportalPExc = pExc;
                    }
                } else if (colonIdx > 1) { 
                    try {
                        return new Time(
                                DateUtil.parseISO8601Time(value, timeZone, calToDateConverter).getTime());
                    } catch (DateParseException pExc) {
                        attemptedTemporalType = "time";
                        attemptedTemportalPExc = pExc;
                    }
                }
                if (attemptedTemportalPExc == null) {
                    throw new DataModelParsingException("Malformed number: " + value, e);
                } else {
                    throw new DataModelParsingException(
                            "Malformed ISO 8601 " + attemptedTemporalType + " (or malformed number): " + 
                            attemptedTemportalPExc.getMessage(), e.getCause());
                }
            }
        } else if (value.startsWith("\"")) {
            try {
                return JSON_MAPPER.readValue(value, String.class);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new DataModelParsingException(
                        "Malformed quoted string (using JSON syntax): " + getMessageWithoutLocation(e),
                        e);
            }
        } else if (value.startsWith("\'")) {
            throw new DataModelParsingException(
                    "Malformed quoted string (using JSON syntax): Use \" character for quotation, not \' character.");
        } else if (value.startsWith("[")) {
            try {
                return JSON_MAPPER.readValue(value, List.class);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new DataModelParsingException(
                        "Malformed list (using JSON syntax): " + getMessageWithoutLocation(e),
                        e);
            }
        } else if (value.startsWith("{")) {
            try {
                return JSON_MAPPER.readValue(value, LinkedHashMap.class);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new DataModelParsingException(
                        "Malformed list (using JSON syntax): " + getMessageWithoutLocation(e),
                        e);
            }
        } else if (value.startsWith("<")) {
            try {
                DocumentBuilder builder = NodeModel.getDocumentBuilderFactory().newDocumentBuilder();
                ErrorHandler errorHandler = NodeModel.getErrorHandler();
                if (errorHandler != null) builder.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);
                final Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(value)));
                NodeModel.simplify(doc);
                return doc;
            } catch (SAXException e) {
                final String saxMsg = e.getMessage();
                throw new DataModelParsingException("Malformed XML: " + (saxMsg != null ? saxMsg : e), e);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new DataModelParsingException("XML parsing has failed with internal error: " + e, e);
            }
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_TRUE)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_TRUE);
            return Boolean.TRUE;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_FALSE)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_FALSE);
            return Boolean.FALSE;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_NULL)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_NULL);
            return null;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_NAN)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_NAN);
            return Double.NaN;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_INFINITY)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_INFINITY);
            return Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_POSITIVE_INFINITY)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_POSITIVE_INFINITY);
            return Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
        } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(KEYWORD_NEGATIVE_INFINITY)) {
            checkKeywordCase(value, KEYWORD_NEGATIVE_INFINITY);
            return Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
        } else if (value.length() == 0) {
            throw new DataModelParsingException(
                    "Empty value. (If you indeed wanted a 0 length string, quote it, like \"\".)");
        } else {
            return value;
        }
    }