chrono-node/src/locales/en/parsers/ENTimeUnitAgoFormatParser.ts

A natural language date parser in Javascript

import { ParsingContext } from "../../../chrono";
import { parseTimeUnits, TIME_UNITS_NO_ABBR_PATTERN, TIME_UNITS_PATTERN } from "../constants";
import { ParsingComponents } from "../../../results";
import { AbstractParserWithWordBoundaryChecking } from "../../../common/parsers/AbstractParserWithWordBoundary";
import { reverseTimeUnits } from "../../../utils/timeunits";

const PATTERN = new RegExp(`(${TIME_UNITS_PATTERN})\\s{0,5}(?:ago|before|earlier)(?=\\W|$)`, "i");
const STRICT_PATTERN = new RegExp(`(${TIME_UNITS_NO_ABBR_PATTERN})\\s{0,5}(?:ago|before|earlier)(?=\\W|$)`, "i");

export default class ENTimeUnitAgoFormatParser extends AbstractParserWithWordBoundaryChecking {
    constructor(private strictMode: boolean) {
        super();
    }

    innerPattern(): RegExp {
        return this.strictMode ? STRICT_PATTERN : PATTERN;
    }

    innerExtract(context: ParsingContext, match: RegExpMatchArray) {
        const timeUnits = parseTimeUnits(match[1]);
        if (!timeUnits) {
            return null;
        }
        const outputTimeUnits = reverseTimeUnits(timeUnits);
        return ParsingComponents.createRelativeFromReference(context.reference, outputTimeUnits);
    }
}