[antlr-interest] gUnit (Aug 20, 2007) incompatible with ANTLR 3.1b intermediate builds

Ana Nelson nelson.ana at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 08:22:37 PST 2008


It's there in the gunit.jar file, just expand the jar.



On 08/01/2008, Adam Connelly <adam.rpconnelly at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> One thing I'd be interested in finding out about is the compatibility with
> different languages other than Java.  I get the feeling at the moment that
> to use gUnit you have to use antlr to generate java sources that you then
> compile and pass to gUnit (although I could be wrong).  Are there any plans
> to support other languages ( i.e. C# :)) or to make it language agnostic
> (which I suspect will be a non-starter).
>
> It's just that I'd like to use something like gUnit for testing my
> grammars, but don't want to have to generate them for different target
> languages just for the sake of testing (although even that's probably easier
> than writing my own unit tests all the time).
>
> Is the gUnit source in a downloadable place that I could take a look at if
> I get a chance?
>
> Adam
>
> On 08/01/2008, Ana Nelson < nelson.ana at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had some trouble getting gUnit working, I was getting Java Exceptions
> > such as:
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: type
> >
> > Eventually I changed my classpath to reference the official antlr
> > release ( antlr-3.0.1) and not the intermediate build/early access
> > version (antlr-2007-12-31.17), and recompiled the grammar I was testing
> > with antlr-3.0.1 and that did the trick.
> >
> > I did try compiling gUnit.g with antlr-2007-12-31.17 to see if I could
> > use the more recent version, but there's an issue with quote escaping so the
> > generated .java files won't compile.
> >
> > Just posting this here in case anyone else has a similar problem.
> >
> > Are there any plans to make gUnit part of ANTLR? I would really like to
> > have tests for my grammars and to stay up to date with recent versions of
> > ANTLR (since I'm hoping to switch to the Ruby target if it gets more
> > development).
> >
> >
> >
>
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