/*
 * [PropTokenizer.java]
 *
 * Summary: Decides which extensions will be processed by the properties finite state automaton parser.
 *
 * Copyright: (c) 2005-2017 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products, http://mindprod.com
 *
 * Licence: This software may be copied and used freely for any purpose but military.
 *          http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
 *
 * Requires: JDK 1.8+
 *
 * Created with: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
 *
 * Version History:
 *  1.0 2005-12-22
 */
package com.mindprod.jprep;

import com.mindprod.jtokens.Token;

/**
 * Decides which extensions will be processed by the properties finite state automaton parser.
 *
 * @author Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
 * @version 1.0 2005-12-22
 * @since 2005-12-22
 */
public final class PropTokenizer implements JPrepTokenizer
    {
    /**
     * Constructor
     */
    public PropTokenizer()
        {
        // we don't load the big PropState class until we actually first need to
        // parse.
        // Because PropState is all static, it will be created o
        // only once no matter  how many PropTokenizers you create.
        // used to handle txx, mft, list, not handled by TextTokenizer
        }

    /**
     * @inheritDoc
     */
    public String[] getExtensions()
        {
        return new String[] { "properties" };
        }

    /**
     * Parse program and return array of tokens
     *
     * @param big The string of text to analyse, an entire file or fragment.
     *
     * @return tokenized equivalent that encodes the fonts and colours.
     */
    public Token[] tokenize( String big )
        {
        return PropState.parse( big );
        }
    } // end PropTokenizer