public abstract Class BaseRecognizer

Has this rule already parsed input at the current index in the input stream? Return the stop token index or MEMO_RULE_UNKNOWN. If we attempted but failed to parse properly before, return MEMO_RULE_FAILED. This method has a side-effect: if we have seen this input for this rule and successfully parsed before, then seek ahead to 1 past the stop token matched for this rule last time.

A hook to listen in on the token consumption during error recovery. The DebugParser subclasses this to fire events to the listenter.

Consume tokens until one matches the given token set

Override this method to change where error messages go

Return whether or not a backtracking attempt failed.

What is the error header, normally line/character position information?

What error message should be generated for the various exception types? Not very object-oriented code, but I like having all error message generation within one method rather than spread among all of the exception classes. This also makes it much easier for the exception handling because the exception classes do not have to have pointers back to this object to access utility routines and so on. Also, changing the message for an exception type would be difficult because you would have to subclassing exception, but then somehow get ANTLR to make those kinds of exception objects instead of the default. This looks weird, but trust me--it makes the most sense in terms of flexibility. For grammar debugging, you will want to override this to add more information such as the stack frame with getRuleInvocationStack(e, this.getClass().getName()) and, for no viable alts, the decision description and state etc... Override this to change the message generated for one or more exception types.

For debugging and other purposes, might want the grammar name. Have ANTLR generate an implementation for this method.

Get number of recognition errors (lexer, parser, tree parser). Each recognizer tracks its own number. So parser and lexer each have separate count. Does not count the spurious errors found between an error and next valid token match See also reportError()

Return List<String> of the rules in your parser instance leading up to a call to this method. You could override if you want more details such as the file/line info of where in the parser java code a rule is invoked. This is very useful for error messages and for context-sensitive error recovery.

A more general version of getRuleInvocationStack where you can pass in, for example, a RecognitionException to get it's rule stack trace. This routine is shared with all recognizers, hence, static. TODO: move to a utility class or something; weird having lexer call this

Given a rule number and a start token index number, return MEMO_RULE_UNKNOWN if the rule has not parsed input starting from start index. If this rule has parsed input starting from the start index before, then return where the rule stopped parsing. It returns the index of the last token matched by the rule. For now we use a hashtable and just the slow Object-based one. Later, we can make a special one for ints and also one that tosses out data after we commit past input position i.

return how many rule/input-index pairs there are in total. TODO: this includes synpreds. :(

How should a token be displayed in an error message? The default is to display just the text, but during development you might want to have a lot of information spit out. Override in that case to use t.toString() (which, for CommonToken, dumps everything about the token). This is better than forcing you to override a method in your token objects because you don't have to go modify your lexer so that it creates a new Java type.

Used to print out token names like ID during debugging and error reporting. The generated parsers implement a method that overrides this to point to their String[] tokenNames.

Match current input symbol against ttype. Attempt single token insertion or deletion error recovery. If that fails, throw MismatchedTokenException. To turn off single token insertion or deletion error recovery, override recoverFromMismatchedToken() and have it throw an exception. See TreeParser.recoverFromMismatchedToken(). This way any error in a rule will cause an exception and immediate exit from rule. Rule would recover by resynchronizing to the set of symbols that can follow rule ref.

Match the wildcard: in a symbol

Record whether or not this rule parsed the input at this position successfully. Use a standard java hashtable for now.

Recover from an error found on the input stream. This is for NoViableAlt and mismatched symbol exceptions. If you enable single token insertion and deletion, this will usually not handle mismatched symbol exceptions but there could be a mismatched token that the match() routine could not recover from.

Not currently used

Report a recognition problem. This method sets errorRecovery to indicate the parser is recovering not parsing. Once in recovery mode, no errors are generated. To get out of recovery mode, the parser must successfully match a token (after a resync). So it will go: 1. error occurs 2. enter recovery mode, report error 3. consume until token found in resynch set 4. try to resume parsing 5. next match() will reset errorRecovery mode If you override, make sure to update syntaxErrors if you care about that.

reset the parser's state; subclasses must rewinds the input stream

A convenience method for use most often with template rewrites. Convert a List<Token> to List<String>