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Partial parsing can't resolve some references [message #791944] Mon, 06 February 2012 12:59 Go to next message
Adam Missing name is currently offline Adam Missing nameFriend
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Registered: December 2011
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My coffeescript plugin works perfectly for this code snippet
value = 1
# some remark
b = value

But if I add a trailing space in the comment in the editor, it gives a warning that it couldn't resolve reference to "b = v". Removing the space also stops this warning.

Here is what I found so far. The length of the string it's trying to resolve is the same as the length of actual reference ("value" in this case). So it seems to be trying resolution with a wrong offset.

It works fine without partial parsing, when I disable it (isReparseSupported returns false).

I'm using an external manual lexer behind the proper xtext parser.

Could you give me any pointer where I should look for the cause of this problem?

Adam
Re: Partial parsing can't resolve some references [message #792794 is a reply to message #791944] Tue, 07 February 2012 12:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Meinte Boersma is currently offline Meinte BoersmaFriend
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The problem quite likely resides in the interplay between the external manual lexer and the Xtext framework and especially whether tokens are going to be part of the hidden stream. Xtext has its own concept of hidden tokens in the sense it needs to store them, precisely to compute offsets correctly and unparse. This means you have to make sure that your external lexer doesn't push tokens to its own (ANTLR-style) hidden token stream. Why do you actually need the external lexer instead of defining some suitable terminals?

Re: Partial parsing can't resolve some references [message #792817 is a reply to message #792794] Tue, 07 February 2012 12:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Adam Missing name is currently offline Adam Missing nameFriend
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Well, my lexer does exactly this with comments: creates an antlr CommonToken for them with hidden channel. What else should/could I do?

I use an external lexer, because I found it too challenging to tokenize significant indentation with Xtext. I also found an open source lexer, I just integrated it to fit antlr and xtext.
Re: Partial parsing can't resolve some references [message #792854 is a reply to message #792817] Tue, 07 February 2012 13:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Meinte Boersma is currently offline Meinte BoersmaFriend
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As stated, Xtext takes care of hidden tokens itself outside of ANTLR's hidden channel. So, you shouldn't use the hidden channel (as tokens going there will not be seen by Xtext at all) but instead return comments and whitespace and such as CommonTokens with the correct type. That means you have to have a corresponding (bogus) terminal in the Xtext grammar.

See here for an example of the integration of an external lexer with Xtext for SGML dialects.


Re: Partial parsing can't resolve some references [message #794648 is a reply to message #792854] Thu, 09 February 2012 14:36 Go to previous message
Adam Missing name is currently offline Adam Missing nameFriend
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I see your point, thank you Meinte. I'm going to reorganize my grammar to handle comments on the default channel and will see how that works.
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