Native as YML

[moonglum]

Maybe it also makes sense to make the natives YMLs. The Native would be a class initialized with the content of a YML file.
It would contain:

• A list of common indications of being a streetname for the language
• It would contain the Regular Expressions from the class to determine if it is a ZIP code etc.
• Possibly it would need an additional Regular Expression to determine the city name as in is_city?

What do you think?

[bitboxer]

I am not sure if it is possible to put all the logic in YML. Maybe there will be stuff that needs code to determine the language ...but we can give it a try

[moonglum]

You mean currently or in the future?

[bitboxer]

In the future.

[moonglum]

Yeah, possibly. I think we should try it for now, if we see that the requirements change in the future: We can still change it than :)

[rjz]

One thought might be to move the parse method out of setup and into to a base class that a language processor (possibly the native class?) would then derive from. For instance,

module Native
  class NativeLanguage
    def parse
      # ...
    end
  end

  class De < NativeLanguage
    # ...
  end
end

The base parse method would handle YML, CSV, or whatever other data format is settled on, but the child class would then have an opportunity to either override it entirely or modify the parsed data with its own logic.