/*!
 * 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 { Token } from "./Token";
import { TokenSource } from "./TokenSource";
/** The default mechanism for creating tokens. It's used by default in Lexer and
 *  the error handling strategy (to create missing tokens).  Notifying the parser
 *  of a new factory means that it notifies its token source and error strategy.
 */
export interface TokenFactory {
    /** This is the method used to create tokens in the lexer and in the
     *  error handling strategy. If text!=undefined, than the start and stop positions
     *  are wiped to -1 in the text override is set in the CommonToken.
     */
    create(source: {
        source?: TokenSource;
        stream?: CharStream;
    }, type: number, text: string | undefined, channel: number, start: number, stop: number, line: number, charPositionInLine: number): Token;
    /** Generically useful */
    createSimple(type: number, text: string): Token;
}