[antlr-interest] Generated classes - annotations

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Sun Aug 2 10:01:56 PDT 2009


I believe you are on the right track :) Please report back
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On Aug 2, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:

> More specifically, I change Java.stg (after copying and renaming, in  
> my case) so that the last few lines of outputFile are now
>
> <docComment>
> <actions.(actionScope).annotate>
> <recognizer>
>
> Then in my combined grammar I assume I can do:
>
> @annotate {/* stuff for parser*/}
> @lexer::annotate {/* stuff for lexer */}
>
> I'm almost tempted to remove the existing <docComment> invocation  
> and put one in using <actions.(actionScope).doc> or something.
>
> Am I heading in the right direction?
>
> Sam
>
> Terence Parr wrote:
>> Don't tell anybody I told you this, but you can do this:
>> @annotatemethod { @SuppressWarnings("all") }
>> and then alter Java.stg so that it references
>> <actions.annotatemethod>
>> right before the method definition. Bob's your uncle, and you have  
>> annotations.
>> ANTLR's output template mechanism allows you to name any action you  
>> want and then reference it from the output templates.
>> Ter
>> On Aug 1, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> similar to previous discussions of doc-comments reaching the  
>>> generated
>>> classes, it'd be *really* nice if it were possible to annotate the
>>> generated classes. Specifically, adding @SuppressWarnings("all")  
>>> would
>>> be lovely, as the generated code produces so many warnings (dead  
>>> code,
>>> unused local variables, unused imports...).
>>>
>>> If there were just something, akin to @header, that appeared  
>>> between the
>>> antlr-generated imports and the actual class, that would do the  
>>> trick -
>>> for doc-comments (of the class) and for annotations.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Sam Barnett-Cormack
>>>
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>
> -- 
> Sam Barnett-Cormack



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