Enhanced badge parsing

The new badge parser has these capabilities:

• Exclude a specified number of characters from the right or left side of the badge.
• Extract a specified number of characters from the right or left side of the badge.
• Chain several badge parsing statements for more complex parsing scenarios.

This new parser does not require you to specify class names for this badge parser. This new badge parsing capability is disabled by default and the existing badge parsing functionality of the SimpleBadgeParser and RightBadgeParser is still supported. We recommend that new installations use this new badge parsing functionality.

These are the relevant settings for the badge parser in settings.conf which are disabled by default:

#!badge.parser.{order}.exclude.right={value}
#!badge.parser.{order}.exclude.left={value}
#!badge.parser.{order}.extract.right={value}
#!badge.parser.{order}.extract.left={value}

Note this information for the above settings:

• {order} is used to chain parsing statements. Replace {order} with a positive integer from 1 to 20. The parsing statements must be chronological starting from 1.
• {value} is used to specify the number of characters to exclude or extract. Replace {value} with a positive integer value must be specified.