That was exactly what I was looking for!
I added "-trace" to the "ANTLR options" section of ANTLRWorks/Preferences and
started getting all the output I was looking for.
I found some documentation on the -trace option in the v2 section, but none in
the v3 area. Of note is that -trace works in v3, but -traceParser and
-traceLexer don't do anything at all. Looks like they've been deprecated. No
matter, it was pretty easy to get what I was looking for without them.
The method of getting similar behavior to those two options is as follows:
To turn off Lexer trace, override TraceIn and TraceOut (the 2 arg versions) in
your lexer class, like so:
public partial class PLSQL31Lexer
{
public override void TraceIn( string ruleName, int ruleIndex )
{
// Create no trace output for lexing
}
public override void TraceOut( string ruleName, int ruleIndex )
{
// Create no trace output for lexing
}
}
That leaves me with just parser trace, exactly what I was looking for.
I then override the same methods to redirect the trace from the stdout to the
debugout:
using trace = System.Diagnostics.Trace; // use this instead of private
TextWriter trace!
public partial class PLSQL31Parser
{
//private TextWriter trace = Console.Out; // This mirrors the behaviour
we're overloading
// Override the parser trace method so we can control where the
information goes
public override void TraceIn( string ruleName, int ruleIndex )
{
TraceIn( ruleName, ruleIndex, input.LT( 1 ) );
}
// Override the parser trace method so we can control where the
information goes
public override void TraceIn( string ruleName, int ruleIndex, object
inputSymbol )
{
trace.Write( is_sql ? "(SQL)" : "(PL/)" );
trace.Write( "enter " + ruleName + " " + inputSymbol );
if (state.backtracking > 0)
{
trace.Write( " backtracking=" + state.backtracking );
}
trace.WriteLine( string.Empty );
}
// Override the parser trace method so we can control where the
information goes
public override void TraceOut( string ruleName, int ruleIndex, object
inputSymbol )
{
trace.Write( is_sql ? "(SQL)" : "(PL/)" );
trace.Write( "exit " + ruleName + " " + inputSymbol );
if (state.backtracking > 0)
{
trace.Write( " backtracking=" + state.backtracking );
trace.WriteLine( state.failed ? " FAILED!" : " succeeded" );
}
else
{
trace.WriteLine( string.Empty );
}
}
// Override the parser trace method so we can control where the
information goes
public override void TraceOut( string ruleName, int ruleIndex )
{
TraceOut( ruleName, ruleIndex, input.LT( 1 ) );
}
}
Note that I can comment out my using statement and uncomment the private to
easily switch from debugout to any other TextWriter stream I want. Very handy!
With this setup it's a one-line change to generate a file that traces my
parsing if I want it.
And of course, to get a -traceLexer behavior I'd just reverse my implementation.
Thanks Ter, very handy!
J
-----Original Message-----
From: antlr-interest-boun...@antlr.org
[mailto:antlr-interest-boun...@antlr.org] On Behalf Of Terence Parr
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:48 PM
To: Tilman Bender
Cc: antlr-inter...@antlr.org
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Parse trace?
-trace option will work great for you. recompile and when you run your
parser traceIn/traceOut methods will be called. you can override them
or use the default which spits out information.
Ter
On May 14, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Tilman Bender wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> I am sure what you mean by "annotatin my grammar with trace
> statements".
> If you mean doing this manually for every rule/alternative: you need
> not do that.
>
> As far as I see you can have ANTLR add such trace information for
> you, so you do not have to do
> it manually. I've seen this as a config option in the antlr3-maven-
> plugin and I am sure there is a corresponding
> ANTLR-Tool option for this.
>
> Another (maybe weird) idea: Isn't this a typical use case for AOP?
> Would it be feasible to weave the logging
> into the whole thing? Just an idea ;-)
>
> Tilman Bender
> Student des Software Engineering
> Hochschule Heilbronn
> tben...@stud.hs-heilbronn.de
>
>
>
> Am 14.05.2009 um 20:07 schrieb West Jay - Toronto-MROC - external:
>
>> So far, the only option I've seen is annotating my grammar with
>> trace statements that'll execute during parsing. Ick. Is there
>> not a better way?
>
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