[antlr-interest] grammar that separates classpath from class name

[John B. Brodie]

A small tweak (UNTESTED) so that you do not need the trailing DOT on 
each usage

On 04/09/2012 04:41 PM, David Boden wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I'm a relative Antlr newbie too, but I've just completed a successful
> project so may be able to help.
>
> Would this work for you?:
> packageDecl        : Identifier (DOT Identifer)*;
> qualifiedJavaType    : (packageDecl DOT)? javaType;

packageDecl : Identifier (DOT Identifier)* DOT! ;
qualifiedJavaType : packageDecl? javaType ;

(the `!` meta suffix operator tells ANTLR not to include the 
corresponding element in the generated AST).

Hope this helps...
    -jbb


>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 9 April 2012 21:28, Scott<jackett_dad at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm just starting with Antlr.  I have past experience with JavaCC, but
>> it's been a while.
>>
>> I'm parsing a fully qualified java type name, and would like to
>> differentiate the classpath from the class name.  So if I were parsing this:
>>
>> com.company.JavaType
>>
>> I would like to specify an expression for which the package and class name
>> are distinct nodes in the parse tree.  I copied a Java 5 grammar as a
>> starting point, but that distinction is not made.  I could easily do this
>> separation in a visitor, but since Antlr is so cool, I'd rather that it did
>> the work for me.
>>
>> The catch is, I don't want to have the last dot character be part of the
>> package name, and I don't want the dot to be part of the class name
>> either.
>>
>> So here is what I have so far:
>>
>> genericTypeArgument : type | QUESTION_MARK (('extends' | 'super') type)?;
>>
>> type            : qualifiedJavaType arrayModifier* | primitiveType
>> arrayModifier*;
>>
>> packageDecl        : (Identifier DOT)*;
>>
>> qualifiedJavaType    : packageDecl? javaType;
>>
>> javaType        : Identifier genericTypeArguments?;
>>
>> This works almost.  The package declaration includes the last dot.  Is
>> there a way that I can have the parser ignore(or not include) only the last
>> dot in the package declaration?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>>
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