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1/*!
2 * Copyright 2016 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
3 * Licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See LICENSE file in the project root for license information.
4 */
5import { CharStream } from "./CharStream";
6import { Token } from "./Token";
7import { TokenFactory } from "./TokenFactory";
8/**
9 * A source of tokens must provide a sequence of tokens via {@link #nextToken()}
10 * and also must reveal it's source of characters; {@link CommonToken}'s text is
11 * computed from a {@link CharStream}; it only store indices into the char
12 * stream.
13 *
14 * Errors from the lexer are never passed to the parser. Either you want to keep
15 * going or you do not upon token recognition error. If you do not want to
16 * continue lexing then you do not want to continue parsing. Just throw an
17 * exception not under {@link RecognitionException} and Java will naturally toss
18 * you all the way out of the recognizers. If you want to continue lexing then
19 * you should not throw an exception to the parser--it has already requested a
20 * token. Keep lexing until you get a valid one. Just report errors and keep
21 * going, looking for a valid token.
22 */
23export interface TokenSource {
24 /**
25 * Return a {@link Token} object from your input stream (usually a
26 * {@link CharStream}). Do not fail/return upon lexing error; keep chewing
27 * on the characters until you get a good one; errors are not passed through
28 * to the parser.
29 */
30 nextToken(): Token;
31 /**
32 * Get the line number for the current position in the input stream. The
33 * first line in the input is line 1.
34 *
35 * @returns The line number for the current position in the input stream, or
36 * 0 if the current token source does not track line numbers.
37 */
38 readonly line: number;
39 /**
40 * Get the index into the current line for the current position in the input
41 * stream. The first character on a line has position 0.
42 *
43 * @returns The line number for the current position in the input stream, or
44 * -1 if the current token source does not track character positions.
45 */
46 readonly charPositionInLine: number;
47 /**
48 * Get the {@link CharStream} from which this token source is currently
49 * providing tokens.
50 *
51 * @returns The {@link CharStream} associated with the current position in
52 * the input, or `undefined` if no input stream is available for the token
53 * source.
54 */
55 readonly inputStream: CharStream | undefined;
56 /**
57 * Gets the name of the underlying input source. This method returns a
58 * non-undefined, non-empty string. If such a name is not known, this method
59 * returns {@link IntStream#UNKNOWN_SOURCE_NAME}.
60 */
61 readonly sourceName: string;
62 /**
63 * Gets or sets the `TokenFactory` this token source is currently using for
64 * creating `Token` objects from the input.
65 */
66 tokenFactory: TokenFactory;
67}