public abstract Class Target

Assume 16-bit char

A given grammar T, return a blank listener implementation such as TBaseListener.java, if we're using the Java target.

A given grammar T, return a blank listener implementation such as TBaseListener.java, if we're using the Java target.

How many bits should be used to do inline token type tests? Java assumes a 64-bit word for bitsets. Must be a valid wordsize for your target like 8, 16, 32, 64, etc...

Since

4.5

A given grammar T, return the listener name such as TListener.java, if we're using the Java target.

Generate TParser.java and TLexer.java from T.g4 if combined, else just use T.java as output regardless of type.

If we know which actual function, we can provide the actual ctx type. This will contain implicit labels etc... From outside, though, we see only ParserRuleContext unless there are externally visible stuff like args, locals, explicit labels, etc...

Gets the maximum number of 16-bit unsigned integers that can be encoded in a single segment (a declaration in target language) of the serialized ATN. E.g., in C++, a small segment length results in multiple decls like: static const int32_t serializedATNSegment1[] = { 0x7, 0x12, 0x2, 0x13, 0x7, 0x13, 0x2, 0x14, 0x7, 0x14, 0x2, 0x15, 0x7, 0x15, 0x2, 0x16, 0x7, 0x16, 0x2, 0x17, 0x7, 0x17, 0x2, 0x18, 0x7, 0x18, 0x2, 0x19, 0x7, 0x19, 0x2, 0x1a, 0x7, 0x1a, 0x2, 0x1b, 0x7, 0x1b, 0x2, 0x1c, 0x7, 0x1c, 0x2, 0x1d, 0x7, 0x1d, 0x2, 0x1e, 0x7, 0x1e, 0x2, 0x1f, 0x7, 0x1f, 0x2, 0x20, 0x7, 0x20, 0x2, 0x21, 0x7, 0x21, 0x2, 0x22, 0x7, 0x22, 0x2, 0x23, 0x7, 0x23, 0x2, 0x24, 0x7, 0x24, 0x2, 0x25, 0x7, 0x25, 0x2, 0x26, }; instead of one big one. Targets are free to ignore this like JavaScript does. This is primarily needed by Java target to limit size of any single ATN string to 65k length.

Returns:int

the serialized ATN segment limit

See Also

SerializedATN#getSegments

For pure strings of Unicode char, how can we display it in the target language as a literal. Useful for dumping predicates and such that may refer to chars that need to be escaped when represented as strings. Also, templates need to be escaped so that the target language can hold them as a string. Each target can have a different set in memory at same time.

Convert from an ANTLR string literal found in a grammar file to an equivalent string literal in the target language.

For Java, this is the translation 'a\n"' → "a\n\"". Expect single quotes around the incoming literal. Just flip the quotes and replace double quotes with \".

Note that we have decided to allow people to use '\"' without penalty, so we must build the target string in a loop as String#replace cannot handle both \" and " without a lot of messing around.

Given a random string of Java unicode chars, return a new string with optionally appropriate quote characters for target language and possibly with some escaped characters. For example, if the incoming string has actual newline characters, the output of this method would convert them to the two char sequence \n for Java, C, C++, ... The new string has double-quotes around it as well. Example String in memory: a"[newlinechar]b'c[carriagereturnchar]d[tab]e\f would be converted to the valid Java s: "a\"\nb'c\rd\te\\f" or a\"\nb'c\rd\te\\f depending on the quoted arg.

Get a meaningful name for a token type useful during code generation. Literals without associated names are converted to the string equivalent of their integer values. Used to generate x==ID and x==34 type comparisons etc... Essentially we are looking for the most obvious way to refer to a token type in the generated code.

ANTLR tool should check output templates / target are compatible with tool code generation. For now, a simple string match used on x.y of x.y.z scheme. We use a method to avoid mismatches between a template called VERSION. This value is checked against Tool.VERSION during load of templates. This additional method forces all targets 4.3 and beyond to add this method.

Since

4.3

A given grammar T, return the visitor name such as TVisitor.java, if we're using the Java target.

Since

4.6

Since

4.3

Since

4.3

Since

4.3