Okay, so this is my first time implementing classes, and everything's going wrong. I'm implimenting a different class, PhraseGenerator, and the method inherited which I wish to define here is getPhrase(). It needs to return theArcha. Instead of working within it, I chose to wrap its braces around my work afterwards, and now, no matter where I put it, a different error arises. Before dealing with any of these, I want to make sure I'm putting it in the right place. To my understanding, it would go within public....FromFile implements PhraseGenerator. Any thoughts on where it should go?
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class PhraseGeneratorFromFile implements PhraseGenerator {
private ParserHelperImpl parserHelper;
public String getPhrase() {
public PhraseGeneratorFromFile(String filename) {
// read file
StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
try {
String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) {
fileContent.append(line);
fileContent.append('\n');
line = br.readLine();
}
String everything = fileContent.toString();
} finally {
br.close();
}
parserHelper = new ParserHelperImpl();
List<String> phraseCollection = parserHelper.getPhrases(fileContent,"phrases:");
String archetype = parserHelper.getRandomElement(phraseCollection);
boolean flagga = true;
while(flagga = true){
Pattern ptrn = Pattern.compile("#[^#]+#");
Matcher m = ptrn.matcher(archetype);
String fromMatcher = m.group(0);
String col = ":";
String token = fromMatcher+col;
List<String> pCol = parserHelper.getPhrases(fileContent, token);
String repl = parserHelper.getRandomElement(pCol);
String hash = "#";
String tk2 = hash + token + hash;
archetype = parserHelper.replace(archetype, tk2, repl);
flagga = m.find();
}
String theArcha = archetype;
return theArcha;
}
}
}