Method Detail
getMaxTokenType
Returns the highest token type value. It can be used to iterate from zero to that number, inclusively, thus querying all stored entries.- Returns:
- the highest token type value
getLiteralName
Gets the string literal associated with a token type. The string returned by this method, when notnull
, can be used unaltered in a parser grammar to represent this token type.The following table shows examples of lexer rules and the literal names assigned to the corresponding token types.
Rule Literal Name Java String Literal THIS : 'this';
'this'
'this'
SQUOTE : '';
''
'''
ID : [A-Z]+;
n/a null
- Parameters:
tokenType
- The token type.- Returns:
- The string literal associated with the specified token type, or
null
if no string literal is associated with the type.
getSymbolicName
Gets the symbolic name associated with a token type. The string returned by this method, when notnull
, can be used unaltered in a parser grammar to represent this token type.This method supports token types defined by any of the following methods:
- Tokens created by lexer rules.
- Tokens defined in a
tokens{}
block in a lexer or parser grammar. - The implicitly defined
EOF
token, which has the token typeToken.EOF
.
The following table shows examples of lexer rules and the literal names assigned to the corresponding token types.
Rule Symbolic Name THIS : 'this';
THIS
SQUOTE : '';
SQUOTE
ID : [A-Z]+;
ID
- Parameters:
tokenType
- The token type.- Returns:
- The symbolic name associated with the specified token type, or
null
if no symbolic name is associated with the type.
getDisplayName
Gets the display name of a token type.ANTLR provides a default implementation of this method, but applications are free to override the behavior in any manner which makes sense for the application. The default implementation returns the first result from the following list which produces a non-
null
result.- The result of
getLiteralName(int)
- The result of
getSymbolicName(int)
- The result of
Integer.toString(int, int)
- Parameters:
tokenType
- The token type.- Returns:
- The display name of the token type, for use in error reporting or other user-visible messages which reference specific token types.
- The result of
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