Creation of helper function for formating error parsing output

api/ECNQueue.py

@@ -227,17 +227,12 @@ def __parseSections(self) -> list:
 
 				# Checks for nesteded delimiters within the reply from user
 				elif replyFromUserDelimiter == True and (line.startswith("===") or line.startswith("***")) and not line.startswith("===="):
-
-					parseErrorMessage = ("Nested delimiter encountered on line "
-						+ str(lineNumber) + ":\n"
-						+ "\t " + line)
 
-					# Creates a dictionary with information regarding to the nested delimiter
-					errorDictionary = {
-						"type": "parseError",
-						"datetime": self.__getFormattedDate(str(datetime.datetime.now())),
-						"content": parseErrorMessage
-					}
+					columnNum = 0
+
+					errorMessage = "Nested delimiter encountered"
+
+					errorDictionary = self.__errorParsing(line, lineNumber, columnNum, errorMessage)
 
 					# Appends the error dictionary to sections
 					sections.append(errorDictionary)
@@ -622,8 +617,10 @@ def __userReplyParsing(self, replyContent: list) -> dict:
 			elif line.startswith("Date: "):
 
 				# Matches everything after "Date: "
-				dateStr = (re.search("(?<=Date: )(.*)", line)).group()
-
+				try:
+					dateStr = (re.search("(?<=Date: )(.*)", line)).group()
+				except:
+					dateStr = ""
 				# Formatts the date to UTC
 				formattedDateTime = self.__getFormattedDate(dateStr)
 
@@ -705,6 +702,34 @@ def __getFormattedMessageContent(self, messageContent: list) -> list:
 
 		return messageContent
 
+	def __errorParsing(self, line: str, lineNum: int, lineColumn: int, errorMessage: str) -> dict:
+		"""Returns a dictionary with error parse information
+
+		Returns:
+		{
+			dictionary: "type": "parse_error",
+			datetime: time_of_execution,
+			content: [
+				'expected value item_row_num:item_column_num',
+				'current line in item'
+			]
+		}
+		"""
+
+		errorDictionary = {
+			"type": "parse_error",
+			"datetime": self.__getFormattedDate(str(datetime.datetime.now())),
+			"content": []
+		}
+
+		# Error message with line and column numbers
+		errorMessage = errorMessage + " at " + str(lineNum) + ":" + str(lineColumn) 
+
+		errorDictionary["content"].append(errorMessage)
+
+		errorDictionary["content"].append(line)
+
+		return errorDictionary
 
 	def __isLocked(self) -> Union[str, bool]:
 		"""Returns a string info about the lock if true and a bool False if false