preliminary Errorparse: returns an error dictionary upon encountering…

… nested delimiter.

api/ECNQueue.py

@@ -188,9 +188,6 @@ def __parseSections(self) -> list:
 		# Checks for Directory Identifiers
 		if self.__rawItem[contentStart] == "\n" and self.__rawItem[contentStart + 1].startswith("\tName:"):
 
-			# List of lines in the directory info
-			# rawDirectoryInfo = self.__rawItem[contentStart + 1: contentStart + 13]
-
 			# Parses the directory information and returns a dictionary of directory values
 			directoryInfo["content"] = self.__directoryParsing(contentStart + 1)
 
@@ -208,8 +205,8 @@ def __parseSections(self) -> list:
 		# Find line numbers where sections start
 		sectionBoundaries = [ {"start": contentStart} ]
 
-		# Used for checking nested reply from user and other delimiters
-		replyFromUserNum = 0
+		# Set to true if a reply-from-user begining delimiter is parsed. Set to false if the ending delimiter is encountered
+		replyFromUserDelimiter = False
 
 		# Parses the entire contents of the message, stores everything before any delimiter as the initial message
 		for lineNumber in range(contentStart, contentEnd + 1):
@@ -221,23 +218,40 @@ def __parseSections(self) -> list:
 				# Signifies that the inital message has been copletely parsed
 				endInitialMessage = True
 
-				if replyFromUserNum == 0 and line.startswith("===") and not line.startswith("===="):
+				if replyFromUserDelimiter == False and line.startswith("===") and not line.startswith("===="):
 
 					# Stores what line every delimeter starts/ends
 					sectionBoundaries.append({"start": lineNumber})
 
-					replyFromUserNum = replyFromUserNum + 1
+					replyFromUserDelimiter = True
 
-				elif replyFromUserNum != 0 and line.startswith("===") and not line.startswith("===="):
-					replyFromUserNum = replyFromUserNum + 1
+				# 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
+					}
 
-				elif replyFromUserNum == 0:
+					# Appends the error dictionary to sections
+					sections.append(errorDictionary)
+
+					# Immediately exits the section parsing function because item content needs to be edited from the cli
+					return sections
+
+				elif replyFromUserDelimiter == False:
 
 					sectionBoundaries.append({"start": lineNumber})
 
 			elif line.startswith("===="):
 
-				replyFromUserNum = replyFromUserNum - 1	
+				replyFromUserDelimiter = False	
 
 			elif endInitialMessage == False:
 
@@ -865,11 +879,4 @@ def getQueues() -> list:
 		if isDirectory and isValid:
 			queues.append(Queue(file))
 
-	return queues
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-	item = Item("aae", 2)
-	print()
-#	for queue in getQueues():
-#		for item in queue.items:
-#			print(f"${item.queue} ${item.number}")
+	return queues