stuff-from-scratch/apps/website-generator/MarkdownContentParser.h

#pragma once

#include "File.h"

#include <string>
#include <optional>

class MarkdownContentParser
{
public:

    using FileMetadataItem = std::pair<std::string, std::string>;
    using FileMetadata = std::vector<FileMetadataItem>;
    using FileContentBody = std::vector<std::string>;

    void run(const std::string& path)
    {
        FileMetadata metadata;

        unsigned metadata_end_loc = 0;
        const auto lines = File(path).readLines();
        for (const auto& line : lines)
        {

        }

    }

    std::string getContentBody() const
    {
        return mContentBody;
    }

    FileMetadata getFileMetadata() const
    {
        return mMetadata;
    }


private:

    std::optional<FileMetadataItem> checkForMetadataItem(const std::string& line) const
    {
        unsigned char_count = 0;
        std::string prefix;
        std::string suffix;
        bool building_prefix = true;
        for (const auto c : line)
        {
            if (c == ':' && char_count > 0 && building_prefix)
            {
                building_prefix = false;
            }
            else if (building_prefix)
            {
                prefix += c;
            }
            else
            {
                suffix += c;
            }
            char_count ++;
        }

        if (!prefix.empty() && !suffix.empty())
        {
            return FileMetadataItem{prefix, suffix};
        }
        else
        {
            return std::nullopt;
        }
    }


    FileMetadata mMetadata;
    FileContentBody mContentBody;
};