[antlr-interest] ANTLR and ANT

Silvain Piree s.piree at enneya.com
Tue May 28 01:29:27 PDT 2002


Attached you'll find the patched ANTLR task for ANT.
It's a quick&dirty solution which adds attributes "glib", "glib2" and
"glib3", but it gets the job done.

Silvain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bogdan Mitu" <bogdan_mt at yahoo.com>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR and ANT


> Hi Silvain,
>
> If I remember correctly, glib=..." is a command-line-only option. You
> probably added new attributes to the ANTLR task. My modifications don't
deal
> with supergrammars (in fact I don't use them, I prefer to use literate
> programming to produce different variations of a grammar). But your
changes
> and mine can be merged. To make more clear what modifications I made, here
> is a fragment from my post to ant-dev:
>
> >>>
> Working with the ANTLR task I saw that it (the ANTLR task) is somehow
> limited when it tries to determine if the source grammar is "dirty" or
not:
>
> - It considers the output of ANTLR to be one file per grammar, while in
fact
> there are 2 (or even 3): XxxParser.java, XxxParserTokenTypes.java and
> possibly XxxParserTokenTypes.txt. If any of one is missing, the grammar
> should be recompiled, which currently happens only for XxxParser.java.
>
> - An ANTLR file can contain more than one grammar (any combination of
lexer,
> parser and tree parser grammars). Once again, multiple output files, and
> each of them missing should trigger the recompilation of the grammar.
>
> - ANTLR grammars can export/import token lists through "vocabulary
files" -
> XxxTokenTypes.txt. If the imported file is newer than the grammar file,
the
> grammar should be recompiled to include the correct tokens in generated
> code.
>
> The main problem lays in the method getGeneratedFile(), which returns only
> one file, while in fact we need two lists of files, ones that are results
of
> the grammar, and should be *older* than the grammar, and a list of
imported
> files, which should be *younger* than the grammar file.
> <<<
>
> The new task parses the grammar file to determine all generated files and
> all imported files, so that it can make a better decision. It doesn't know
> anything about supergrammars. And you're right, it should. If you send me
> your changes, I will try to incorporate them.
>
> Regards,
> Bogdan
>
>
> --- Silvain Piree <s.piree at enneya.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bogdan,
> >
> > > I wrote a new ANTLR task, which uses a parser to analyze all
> > > dependencies, and sent it to ant-dev. However, the process of
> > > review/adoption is very slow, ANTLR not being their top priority.
> > > If someone is interested, I can post the patch.
> >
> > I've also made some small changes to the ANTLR task from ANT:
> > I've added the ability to specify the location of base grammars
> > from which to inherit using "glib=...", "glib2=...", etc.
> >
> > I've also added some checking to see if the base grammars are
> > more recent than the grammar to be processed, so ANTLR
> > is only activated when really needed. Works fine for me.
> >
> > In what way do your changes of the ANTLR task solve that problem.
> > Most noteably, how do you know where the base grammars are
> > located? In my case they are in several different directories.
> >
> > Kind greetings, Silvain
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
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