question:
I need to automatically extract all the name properties from this JavaScript (separately for providers large and providers small)
/*
Simple OpenID Plugin
http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/
This code is licensed under the New BSD License.
*/
var providers_large = {
google : {
name : 'Google',
url : 'https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id'
},
yahoo : {
name : 'Yahoo',
url : 'http://me.yahoo.com/'
},
aol : {
name : 'AOL',
label : 'Enter your AOL screenname.',
url : 'http://openid.aol.com/{username}'
},
myopenid : {
name : 'MyOpenID',
label : 'Enter your MyOpenID username.',
url : 'http://{username}.myopenid.com/'
},
openid : {
name : 'OpenID',
label : 'Enter your OpenID.',
url : null
}
};
var providers_small = {
livejournal : {
name : 'LiveJournal',
label : 'Enter your Livejournal username.',
url : 'http://{username}.livejournal.com/'
},
/* flickr: {
name: 'Flickr',
label: 'Enter your Flickr username.',
url: 'http://flickr.com/{username}/'
}, */
/* technorati: {
name: 'Technorati',
label: 'Enter your Technorati username.',
url: 'http://technorati.com/people/technorati/{username}/'
}, */
wordpress : {
name : 'Wordpress',
label : 'Enter your Wordpress.com username.',
url : 'http://{username}.wordpress.com/'
},
blogger : {
name : 'Blogger',
label : 'Your Blogger account',
url : 'http://{username}.blogspot.com/'
},
verisign : {
name : 'Verisign',
label : 'Your Verisign username',
url : 'http://{username}.pip.verisignlabs.com/'
},
/* vidoop: {
name: 'Vidoop',
label: 'Your Vidoop username',
url: 'http://{username}.myvidoop.com/'
}, */
/* launchpad: {
name: 'Launchpad',
label: 'Your Launchpad username',
url: 'https://launchpad.net/~{username}'
}, */
claimid : {
name : 'ClaimID',
label : 'Your ClaimID username',
url : 'http://claimid.com/{username}'
},
clickpass : {
name : 'ClickPass',
label : 'Enter your ClickPass username',
url : 'http://clickpass.com/public/{username}'
},
google_profile : {
name : 'Google Profile',
label : 'Enter your Google Profile username',
url : 'http://www.google.com/profiles/{username}'
}
};
openid.locale = 'en';
openid.sprite = 'en'; // reused in german& japan localization
openid.demo_text = 'In client demo mode. Normally would have submitted OpenID:';
openid.signin_text = 'Sign-In';
openid.image_title = 'log in with {provider}';
So I need to: A) Remove all the C-Style comments and B) Get all the name values for [providers_large, providers_small] (after the comments have been removed)
So far I have tried regex to remove C-Style comments (and failed) and regex to get everything between curly braces (and failed)
I subsequently tried to read it in as JSON, but this of course failed with "invalid json primitve whatever"
This are the stackoverflow-sites I uses and this are my examples I tried so far
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace ConsoleExperiments
{
public class Program
{
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2538279/strip-out-c-style-multi-line-comments
// NOT working
static string RemoveCstyleComments(string strInput)
{
string strPattern = @"/[*][\w\d\s]+[*]/";
//strPattern = @"/\*.*?\*/";
strPattern = "/\\*.*?\\*/";
string strOutput = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strInput, strPattern, string.Empty, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Multiline);
Console.WriteLine(strOutput);
return strOutput;
}
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413071/regex-to-get-string-between-curly-braces-i-want-whats-between-the-curly-brace
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5337166/regular-expression-get-string-between-curly-braces
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904617/regex-for-removing-curly-brackets-with-nested-curly-brackets
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378415/how-do-i-extract-a-string-of-text-that-lies-between-two-brackets-using-net
static string GetCurlyValues(string strInput)
{
string strPattern = "/{(.*?)}/";
strPattern = "/{([^}]*)}/";
strPattern = @"\{(\s*?.*?)*?\}";
strPattern = @"(?<=\{).*(?=\})";
strPattern = "{(.*{(.*)}.*)}";
strPattern = "{{([^}]*)}}";
strPattern = "{{({?}?[^{}])*}}";
strPattern = @"\(([^)]*)\)";
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(strPattern, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Multiline);
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match mMatch = rex.Match(strInput);
foreach (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Group g in mMatch.Groups)
{
Console.WriteLine("Group: " + g.Value);
foreach (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Capture c in g.Captures)
{
Console.WriteLine("Capture: " + c.Value);
}
}
return "";
}
static void ReadFile()
{
try
{
string strFilePath = @"TestFile.txt";
if (System.IO.File.Exists(strFilePath))
{
// Create an instance of StreamReader to read from a file.
// The using statement also closes the StreamReader.
using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(strFilePath))
{
string line;
// Read and display lines from the file until the end of
// the file is reached.
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
} // Whend
sr.Close();
} // End Using
} // End if (System.IO.File.Exists(strFilePath))
else
Console.WriteLine("File \"" + strFilePath + "\" does not exist.");
} // End Try
catch (Exception e)
{
// Let the user know what went wrong.
Console.WriteLine("The file could not be read:");
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
} // End Catch
} // End Sub
public class cProvider
{
public string name = "abc";
public string label ="def";
public string url ="url";
}
public class cProviders_large
{
public List<cProvider> foo = new List<cProvider>();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string strContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"D:\UserName\Downloads\openid-selector-1.3\openid-selector\js\openid-en - Kopie.js.txt");
Console.WriteLine(strContent);
//RemoveCstyleComments(strContent);
//GetCurlyValues(strContent);
System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer js = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer();
//object obj = js.DeserializeObject(strContent);
cProviders_large xx = new cProviders_large();
cProvider ap = new cProvider();
xx.foo.Add(ap);
xx.foo.Add(ap);
string res = js.Serialize(xx);
Console.WriteLine(res);
Console.WriteLine(Environment.NewLine);
Console.WriteLine(" --- Press any key to continue --- ");
Console.ReadKey();
} // End Sub Main
} // End Class Program
} // End namespace ConsoleExperiments
Could anybody who understands regex better than me provide me with the necessary regex-expressions ? Right now, it looks like I will end-up doing it by hand every time the file changes, and I really really hate this...
Edit: On a sidenote, the v8 wrapper uses C++.NET, and thus doesn't work on Linux, although the v8 engine does work very well on Linux.
So I'm sticking to solving the problem via JSON conversion.
