ANTLR4 runtime for Rust programming language
Tool(generator) part is currently located in rust-target branch of my antlr4 fork rrevenantt/antlr4/tree/rust-target
Latest version is automatically built to releases on this repository.
Also you can checkout it and mvn -DskipTests install
For examples you can see grammars, tests/gen for corresponding generated code and tests/my_tests.rs for actual usage examples
Everything is implemented, "business" logic is quite stable and well tested, but user facing API is not very robust yet an very likely will have some changes.
For now development is going on in this repository but eventually it will be merged to main ANTLR4 repo
Currently requires nightly version of rust.
This likely will be the case until specialization
,try_blocks
and unsize
features are stabilized.
Remaining things before merge:
- API stabilization
- Rust api guidelines compliance
- more tests for API because it is quite different from Java
- make parsing zero copy(i.e. use &str(or Cow) instead String in token and &Token in tree nodes)
- more generic
PredictionContext
- generic over ownership for string
- generate enum for labeled alternatives without redundant
Error
option - option to generate fields instead of getters by default
- move useful exports to lib.rs for better documentation
Can be done after merge:
- profiling and performance optimizations
- Documentation
- Some things are already documented but still far from perfect, also more links needed.
- Code quality
- Rustfmt fails to run currently
- Clippy sanitation
- Not all warning are fixed
- cfg to not build potentially unnecessary parts (no Lexer if custom token stream, no ParserATNSimulator if LL(1) grammar)
- visitor
- run rustfmt on generated parser
- make tree generic over pointer type (requires GAT, otherwise it would be a problem for users that want ownership for parse tree)
- support stable rust
- support no_std(although alloc would still be required)
You use the ANTLR4 "tool" to generate a parser, that will use the ANTLR runtime, located here. You can run it with the following command:
java -jar <path to ANTLR4 tool> -Dlanguage=Rust MyGrammar.g4
For a full list of antlr4 tool options, please visit the tool documentation page.
You can also see build.rs as an example of build.rs
configuration
to rebuild parser automatically if grammar file was changed
Then add following to Cargo.toml
of the crate from which generated parser
is going to be used:
[dependencies]
lazy_static = "1.4"
antlr-rust = "0.1"
and #![feature(try_blocks)]
in your project root module.
It is possible to generate idiomatic Rust syntax trees. For this you would need to use labels feature of ANTLR tool. You can see Labels grammar for example. Consider following rule :
e : a=e op='*' b=e # mult
| left=e '+' b=e # add
For such rule ANTLR will generate enum EContextAll
containing mult
and add
alternatives,
so you will be able to match on them in your code.
Also corresponding struct for each alternative will contain fields you labeled.
I.e. for MultContext
struct will contain a
and b
fields containing child subtrees and
op
field with TerminalNode
type which corresponds to individual Token
.
It also is possible to disable generic parse tree creation to keep only selected children via
parser.build_parse_trees = false
.
Although Rust runtime API is made as close as possible to Java, there are quite some differences because Rust is not an OOP language and is much more explicit.
- All rule context variables (rule argument or rule return) should implement
Default + Clone
. - If you are using labeled alternatives, struct generated for rule is a enum with variant for each alternative
- Parser needs to have ownership for listeners, but it is possible te get listener back via
ListenerId
otherwiseParseTreeWalker
should be used. - In embedded actions to access parser you should use
recog
variable instead ofself
. This is because predicate have to be inserted into two syntactically different places in generated parser
Currently unsafe is used only to cast from trait object back to original type
and to update data inside Rc via get_mut_unchecked
(returned mutable reference is used immediately and not stored anywhere)
BSD 3-clause