import re
import unicodedata

from absa.data.transliterate import transliterate


def clean(text: str, language: str) -> str:
    """Clean text by lowercasing, removing URLs/mentions/hashtags, normalizing unicode, stripping whitespace."""
    if not text:
        return ""

    # lowercase
    text = text.lower()

    # remove URLs
    text = re.sub(r"http\S+|www\.\S+", "", text)

    # remove mentions
    text = re.sub(r"@\w+", "", text)

    # remove hashtags
    text = re.sub(r"#\w+", "", text)

    # Apply transliteration only for hi/hinglish inputs
    if language in ["hi", "hinglish"]:
        text = transliterate(text, language)

    # normalize unicode
    text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text)

    # strip whitespace
    text = text.strip()
    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)

    return text