/// <summary> Fills a field with values from an unparsed string representing the field. </summary>
/// <param name="destinationField">the field Type
/// </param>
/// <param name="data">the field string (including all components and subcomponents; not including field delimiters)
/// </param>
/// <param name="encodingCharacters">the encoding characters used in the message
/// </param>
private static void Parse(IType destinationField, String data, EncodingCharacters encodingCharacters)
{
String[] components = Split(data, Convert.ToString(encodingCharacters.ComponentSeparator));
for (int i = 0; i < components.Length; i++)
{
int index = i + 1;
if (components[i] != null && (Terser.isPrimitive(destinationField, index) &&
components[i].Contains(Convert.ToString(encodingCharacters.SubcomponentSeparator))))
{ // sometimes someone sends us bad data and if the destinition is a primitive we should escape what needs to be escaped
components[i] = Escape.escape(components[i], encodingCharacters);
}
String[] subcomponents = Split(components[i], Convert.ToString(encodingCharacters.SubcomponentSeparator));
for (int j = 0; j < subcomponents.Length; j++)
{
String val = subcomponents[j];
if (val != null)
{
val = Escape.unescape(val, encodingCharacters);
}
Terser.getPrimitive(destinationField, index, j + 1).Value = val;
}
}
}