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+/***********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2024 /// Project SWG /// www.projectswg.com                       *
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * ProjectSWG is an emulation project for Star Wars Galaxies founded on            *
+ * July 7th, 2011 after SOE announced the official shutdown of Star Wars Galaxies. *
+ * Our goal is to create one or more emulators which will provide servers for      *
+ * players to continue playing a game similar to the one they used to play.        *
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * This file is part of PSWGCommon.                                                *
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * PSWGCommon is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify              *
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as                  *
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the              *
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.                                 *
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * PSWGCommon is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,                   *
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of                  *
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the                   *
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.                             *
+ *                                                                                 *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License        *
+ * along with PSWGCommon.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.             *
+ ***********************************************************************************/
+package com.projectswg.common.data.swgfile
+
+import com.projectswg.common.data.encodables.oob.StringId
+import com.projectswg.common.network.NetBuffer
+import me.joshlarson.jlcommon.log.Log
+import java.io.File
+import java.nio.channels.FileChannel
+
+class ClientStringParser private constructor(private val buffer: NetBuffer, private val swgFileName: String) {
+	
+	val strings = HashMap<StringId, String>()
+	
+	private fun parseVersion0() {
+		assert(false) // No .stf's I'm aware of use this version
+	}
+	
+	private fun parseVersion1() {
+		buffer.int // nextUniqueId
+		val entryCount = buffer.int
+		val values = HashMap<Int, String>(entryCount)
+		for (i in 0 until entryCount) {
+			val id = buffer.int
+			buffer.int // source CRC used to generate the string--unused for us
+			values[id] = buffer.unicode
+		}
+		for (i in 0 until entryCount) {
+			val id = buffer.int
+			val key = String(buffer.arrayLarge, Charsets.US_ASCII)
+			if (!values.contains(id))
+				Log.w("Unknown string value for key: %d (key text: %s)", id, key)
+			strings[StringId(swgFileName, key)] = values[id] ?: continue
+		}
+	}
+	
+	companion object {
+		
+		fun parse(filepath: File, swgFileName: String): ClientStringParser {
+			FileChannel.open(filepath.toPath()).use { channel ->
+				val buffer = NetBuffer.wrap(channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, channel.size()))
+				val magic = buffer.int
+				val version = buffer.byte.toInt()
+				check(magic == 0xABCD) { "invalid magic bytes at start of file" }
+
+				val parser = ClientStringParser(buffer, swgFileName)
+				when (version) {
+					0 -> parser.parseVersion0()
+					1 -> parser.parseVersion1()
+					else -> error("invalid version $version")
+				}
+				return parser
+			}
+		}
+		
+	}
+	
+}