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| [Xtext] A very generic terminal definition [message #57051] |
Fri, 10 July 2009 11:47  |
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Hi everyone.
I have the following problem:
In my DSL, I have a Token that can be very generic.
Possible example values are:
- "abc" -> Single Line String with quotation marks
- "abc
defg
xyz" -> multi line String with quotation marks
- "abc
defg
xyz" "hello" "wor
ld" -> Multiple Quotation Mark Strings, possibly over multiple Lines
- [188, 365, 512, 604] -> numbers, commas, brackets and whitespaces
- 10 -> INT
- 20.02 -> FLOAT
- helloWorld -> Single line String without Quotation Marks and without
whitspaces
- hello100World -> same as before, but with digits
- 100World
- hello100
I've tried to define a terminal for that:
For all Quotation Mark Strings, I have defined:
terminal ML_STRINGVALUE : ('"' -> '"')+;
All values, with and without Quotation Marks shall be possible for my
generic token.
All of my attempts resulted in warnings like:
warning(208):
../org.de.***.parse.mdl/src-gen/org/de/***/parse/parser/antl r/internal/InternalMDL.g:619:1:
The following token definitions are unreachable: RULE_INT
Thats currently the import part from my Definition:
grammar org.de.***.parse.MDL with org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals
generate mDL "http://www.de.org/***/parse/MDL"
MDLModel :
model=Model;
terminal NOSTRINGVALUE : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'.'|'-'|','|INT)+;
terminal VECTOR : '[' -> ']';
terminal ML_STRINGVALUE : ('"' -> '"')+;
//terminal VALUE : (NOSTRINGVALUE|ML_STRINGVALUE);
ParamValuePair :
parameter=NOSTRINGVALUE value=(VECTOR|NOSTRINGVALUE|ML_STRINGVALUE)
;
...
Does anyone have an idea, how it is possible to also accept the values
without Quotation Marks and without getting warnings like "The following
token definitions are unreachable: RULE_INT"?
Also it is not possible yet, to have whitespaces between End and Start
Quotation Marks considering Multiple Quotation Mark Strings, possibly over
multiple Lines as mentioned above.
Kind regards, Helko
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| Re: [Xtext] A very generic terminal definition [message #57336 is a reply to message #57051] |
Mon, 13 July 2009 03:17  |
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Hi Helko,
find my comments inlined :
Helko Glathe schrieb:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> In my DSL, I have a Token that can be very generic.
>
> Possible example values are:
> - "abc" -> Single Line String with quotation marks
>
> - "abc defg
> xyz" -> multi line String with quotation marks
>
> - "abc defg
> xyz" "hello" "wor
> ld" -> Multiple Quotation Mark Strings, possibly over multiple Lines
>
> - [188, 365, 512, 604] -> numbers, commas, brackets and whitespaces
>
> - 10 -> INT
>
> - 20.02 -> FLOAT
>
> - helloWorld -> Single line String without Quotation Marks and without
> whitspaces
>
> - hello100World -> same as before, but with digits
>
> - 100World
>
> - hello100
>
>
> I've tried to define a terminal for that:
Why do you want to define all this in one terminal rule?
It should be separeted into multiple rules, one for each of the outlines
syntaxes.
>
> For all Quotation Mark Strings, I have defined:
> terminal ML_STRINGVALUE : ('"' -> '"')+;
>
This shouldn't be a terminal rule, but a parser rule:
QuotationMarkStrings : values+=STRING;
> All values, with and without Quotation Marks shall be possible for my
> generic token.
>
> All of my attempts resulted in warnings like:
> warning(208):
> ./org.de.***.parse.mdl/src-gen/org/de/***/parse/parser/antlr /internal/InternalMDL.g:619:1:
> The following token definitions are unreachable: RULE_INT
This warning occurs if you have a token rule which shadows following
rules. See documentation or the other comment of Dennis Harmath.
>
> Thats currently the import part from my Definition:
> grammar org.de.***.parse.MDL with org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals
>
> generate mDL "http://www.de.org/***/parse/MDL"
>
> MDLModel :
> model=Model;
>
> terminal NOSTRINGVALUE : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'.'|'-'|','|INT)+;
> terminal VECTOR : '[' -> ']';
> terminal ML_STRINGVALUE : ('"' -> '"')+;
> //terminal VALUE : (NOSTRINGVALUE|ML_STRINGVALUE);
>
> ParamValuePair :
> parameter=NOSTRINGVALUE value=(VECTOR|NOSTRINGVALUE|ML_STRINGVALUE)
> ;
> ..
You should do this with datatype rules, or even real parser rules.
For instance:
Vector : '[' values+=INT (',' values+=INT)+ ']';
TextValue : STRING | ID;
>
> Does anyone have an idea, how it is possible to also accept the values
> without Quotation Marks and without getting warnings like "The following
> token definitions are unreachable: RULE_INT"?
>
> Also it is not possible yet, to have whitespaces between End and Start
> Quotation Marks considering Multiple Quotation Mark Strings, possibly
> over multiple Lines as mentioned above.
It is possible, and automatically handled if you use datatype rules or
common parser rules. If you use terminal rules, you have to handle
whitespace explicitly. But you shouldn't use them for what you want to do.
Regards,
Sven
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