2 files changed, 96 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/conf/parser.go b/conf/parser.go
index 75f610c..26784f4 100644
--- a/conf/parser.go
+++ b/conf/parser.go
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 // grammar of the config file
 //
+// Notes: We parse exactly three modules ("input", "filter", "output")
+// in our configuration. Each module consists of two name-object pairs
+// that are nested. We don't want to allow limitless recursion here.
+//
 // config = module module module
-// module = name object
-// name = 'input' | 'filter' | 'etc.'
+// module = name object name object
+// name = 'input' | 'filter' | 'output' | etc.
 // object = '{' keyvalue | keyvalue | ... '}'
 // keyvalue = statement '=>' value
 // statement = name | if
@@ -17,8 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 )
 
-// Having a Config to Manager function could be nice?
-// Or we could just return a Manager from here.
+// Having a Config to Manager function could be nice?  Or we could just
+// return a Manager from here which may be even better...
 type Config struct {
 }
 
@@ -44,20 +48,88 @@ func NewConfig(r io.Reader) *Config {
 }
 
 func (p *parser) startparsing() {
+	p.module("input")
+
+	p.module("filter")
+
+}
+
+func (p *parser) advanceOneToken(place string) {
 	var err error
 
 	p.last = p.cur
 	p.cur, err = p.s.Scan()
-	for err == nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "tokentype: %d, token: %q offset: %d, line: %d\n", p.cur.Type, p.cur.Lit, p.cur.Offset, p.cur.LineNr)
-		p.last = p.cur
-		p.cur, err = p.s.Scan()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing %s. Scanner returned an error %v.\n", place, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
 	}
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error: tokentype: %d, token: %q, err: %v\n", p.cur.Type, p.cur.Lit, err)
 }
 
-func (p *parser) module(name string) {
+func (p *parser) module(firstname string) {
+	p.advanceOneToken("module")
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "tokentype: %d, token: %q\n", p.cur.Type, p.cur.Lit)
+
+	if p.cur.Lit != firstname {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing module. We were expecting name %q but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", firstname, p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
+	p.advanceOneToken("module")
+	if p.cur.Type != ObjectDelimiter {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing module. We were expecting an opening bracket but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
+	p.advanceOneToken("module")
+	if p.cur.Type != Name {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing module. We were expecting another name but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+	p.object()
+
+	p.advanceOneToken("module")
+	if p.cur.Lit[0] != '}' {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing module. Was expecting a closing bracket but got %s at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
 }
 
 func (p *parser) object() {
+	p.advanceOneToken("object")
+
+	if p.cur.Lit[0] != '{' {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing object. Was expecting an opening bracket but got %s at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+	// hack to deal with case where there is no white space between
+	// the delimiters.
+	if p.cur.Lit == "{}" {
+		return
+	}
+
+	for {
+		more := p.keyvalue()
+		if !more {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+}
+
+func (p *parser) keyvalue() bool {
+	p.advanceOneToken("keyvalue")
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "keyvalue: tokentype: %d, token: %q\n", p.cur.Type, p.cur.Lit)
+	if p.cur.Type != Literal {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing keyvalue. Was expecting a name but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
+	p.advanceOneToken("keyvalue")
+	if p.cur.Lit != "=>" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing keyvalue. Was expecting a '=>' but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
+	p.advanceOneToken("keyvalue")
+	if p.cur.Type != Literal || p.cur.Type != Literal {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error when parsing keyvalue. Was expecting a literal or a name but got %q at line %d offset %d.\n", p.cur.Lit, p.cur.LineNr, p.cur.Offset)
+	}
+
+	return false
 }
diff --git a/conf/scanner.go b/conf/scanner.go
index fd9868a..44301fe 100644
--- a/conf/scanner.go
+++ b/conf/scanner.go
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ type tokentype int
 const (
 	Name tokentype = iota
 	Literal
-	DeliOpen
-	DeliClose
+	ListDelimiter
+	ObjectDelimiter
+	EmptyList
+	EmptyObject
 	Nothing
 	IfStatement
 )
@@ -50,7 +52,16 @@ func newScanner(r io.Reader) *scanner {
 }
 
 func getTokenType(s []byte) tokentype {
-	return Nothing
+	switch s[0] {
+	case '"', '\'':
+		return Literal
+	case '[':
+		return ListDelimiter
+	case '{':
+		return ObjectDelimiter
+	}
+
+	return Name
 }
 
 func (s *scanner) Scan() (token, error) {