[antlr-interest] save a tree
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Jan 11 12:53:50 PST 2008
isn't there a "save as XML" method or somethign?
Ter
On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Hi Mathew,
>
> Mathew Yeates wrote:
>> From within a java program I want to save (to disk) the AST I've
>> created. Then I want to read it back into a python program. Anyone
>> have
>> any ideas about the simplest approach to this?
>
> I'm not aware of any format, package, whatever (something that could
> (de)serialize custom objects cross language) that could help you
> here - and
> ANTLR does not offer anything here. So you probably have to build
> your own
> serialization in Java and deserialize in Python - and ANTLR does not
> offer
> anything here.
> Just walk to AST and dump all info that you need in a easy to parse
> format
> and read it back in Python building the nodes along the way.
>
> -Ben
>
> --
> Benjamin Niemann
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>
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