/*!
 * Copyright 2016 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
 * Licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See LICENSE file in the project root for license information.
 */
import { CharStream } from "./CharStream";
import { CommonToken } from "./CommonToken";
import { TokenFactory } from "./TokenFactory";
import { TokenSource } from "./TokenSource";
/**
 * This default implementation of {@link TokenFactory} creates
 * {@link CommonToken} objects.
 */
export declare class CommonTokenFactory implements TokenFactory {
    /**
     * Indicates whether {@link CommonToken#setText} should be called after
     * constructing tokens to explicitly set the text. This is useful for cases
     * where the input stream might not be able to provide arbitrary substrings
     * of text from the input after the lexer creates a token (e.g. the
     * implementation of {@link CharStream#getText} in
     * {@link UnbufferedCharStream}
     * {@link UnsupportedOperationException}). Explicitly setting the token text
     * allows {@link Token#getText} to be called at any time regardless of the
     * input stream implementation.
     *
     * The default value is `false` to avoid the performance and memory
     * overhead of copying text for every token unless explicitly requested.
     */
    protected copyText: boolean;
    /**
     * Constructs a {@link CommonTokenFactory} with the specified value for
     * {@link #copyText}.
     *
     * When `copyText` is `false`, the {@link #DEFAULT} instance
     * should be used instead of constructing a new instance.
     *
     * @param copyText The value for {@link #copyText}.
     */
    constructor(copyText?: boolean);
    create(source: {
        source?: TokenSource;
        stream?: CharStream;
    }, type: number, text: string | undefined, channel: number, start: number, stop: number, line: number, charPositionInLine: number): CommonToken;
    createSimple(type: number, text: string): CommonToken;
}
export declare namespace CommonTokenFactory {
    /**
     * The default {@link CommonTokenFactory} instance.
     *
     * This token factory does not explicitly copy token text when constructing
     * tokens.
     */
    const DEFAULT: TokenFactory;
}