resolving all the comments santo made

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/semanticanalysis/Share.java b/src/semanticanalysis/Share.java
index c1f03c2..c98fc53 100644
--- a/src/semanticanalysis/Share.java
+++ b/src/semanticanalysis/Share.java
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 package semanticanalysis;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.io.*;
 
 public class Share {
 
-    public static <T> ArrayList<T> removeDuplicates(ArrayList<T> list) {
-        ArrayList<T> newList = new ArrayList<T>();
+    /**
+     * Removes the duplicate elements in a list of Semantic Errors. It's not
+     * generic because it's used a custom contains function.
+     */
+    public static ArrayList<SemanticError> removeDuplicates(ArrayList<SemanticError> list) {
+        ArrayList<SemanticError> newList = new ArrayList<SemanticError>();
 
-        for (T element : list) {
+        for (SemanticError element : list) {
             if (!customContains(newList, element)) {
                 newList.add(element);
             }
@@ -15,9 +20,14 @@ public class Share {
         return newList;
     }
 
-    public static <T> boolean customContains(ArrayList<T> list, T e) {
+    /**
+     * Normal contains did not work, so we made a custom contains function.
+     * Returns `true` if the String rappresentation of an object in the list is
+     * equal to the element given in input.
+     */
+    private static boolean customContains(ArrayList<SemanticError> list, SemanticError e) {
         String e1 = e.toString();
-        for (T element : list) {
+        for (SemanticError element : list) {
             String e2 = element.toString();
             if (e2.equals(e1)) {
                 return true;
@@ -34,4 +44,15 @@ public class Share {
             return fileName.substring(extensionIndex + 1);
         }
     }
+
+    public static String readFile(String filePath) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
+        try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath))) {
+            String line;
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                content.append(line).append("\n");
+            }
+        }
+        return content.toString();
+    }
 }