Time for action – Testing our parser

Before continuing any further, we should test our parser in order to be sure that it works as expected.

To do this, we can use the following configuration file:

nameMyComponent 1
textHelloWorld 0

If everything works as expected, we should have a name metadata with the value MyComponent and a property named text with the value HelloWorld.

Let's write a simple test class:

class ComponentImpl
{
   public static function main(): Void
   {
      var comp = ComponentParser.parseConfigurationFile("conf.txt");
      trace(comp.properties.get("text"));
      trace(comp.metadata.get("name"));
   }
}

Now, if everything went well, while running this program, you should get the following output:

ComponentImpl.hx:6: HelloWorld
ComponentImpl.hx:7: MyComponent