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package com.pinterest.secor.parser;

import com.pinterest.secor.common.SecorConfig;
import com.pinterest.secor.message.Message;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * RegexMessageParser extracts timestamp field (specified by 'message.timestamp.input.pattern')
 * The pattern specifies the regular exp to extract the timestamp field from a free-text line.
 *
 *  * @author Henry Cai (hcai@pinterest.com)
 */
public class RegexMessageParser extends TimestampedMessageParser {
    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RegexMessageParser.class);

    private final Pattern mTsPattern;

    public RegexMessageParser(SecorConfig config) {
        super(config);
        String patStr = config.getMessageTimestampInputPattern();
        LOG.info("timestamp pattern: {}", patStr);
        mTsPattern = Pattern.compile(patStr);
    }

    @Override
    public long extractTimestampMillis(final Message message) {
        String line = new String(message.getPayload());
        Matcher m = mTsPattern.matcher(line);
        if (m.find()) {
            String tsValue = m.group(1);
            if (tsValue != null) {
                return toMillis(Long.parseLong(tsValue));
            }
        }
        throw new NumberFormatException("Cannot find timestamp field in: " + line);
    }

}

@@ -1720,24 +1720,44 @@
 mpile(patStr
+, Pattern.UNIX_LINES
 );%0A    %7D%0A%0A  

Use the strict UNIX_LINES mode to do regular expression parsing