NAME

MarpaX::Languages::IDL::AST - Translate an IDL source to an AST

VERSION

version 0.007

SYNOPSIS

    use MarpaX::Languages::IDL::AST;

    my $idlPath = 'source.idl';
    my $ast = MarpaX::Languages::IDL::AST->new()->parse($idlPath)->validate();

$class->new()

Instantiate a new object. Returns a reference to it, denoted $self hereafter.

$self->parse($path, $hashOptPtr)

Parse the IDL and produce an AST out of it, then a meta-AST that is more useful representation for further processing. Takes as parameters:

$path

A required IDL pathname.

$hashOptPtr

An optional reference to a hash containing Marpa::R2::Scanless::R() parameters, except the grammar and semantics_package options.

The AST is an exact representation of the parse tree value of the IDL grammar contained in this package, except:

scopedName

Original grammar rule is:

 <scopedName> ::= <identifier> | '::' <identifier> | <scopedName> '::' <identifier>

and has been rewriten to:

 <scopedName> ::= <identifier>+ separator => <coloncolon>

A dedicated action rule will concatenate all identifiers into a single string, giving the impression that scopedName is a token (accurate terminology is a lexeme). I.e. the scopedName value in the AST is in the form:

bless([start,totalLength,concatenatedValue], 'IDL::AST::scopedName')

alike the identifier.

This method returns $self.

$self->ast()

Returns the latest AST produced by $self->parse().

$self->output()

Returns the latest output produced by $self->generate().

$self->generate($ast, $template, $targetOptionHashp)

Generate files for the given AST $ast.

$ast

AST as produced by the method $self->parse(). Default to $self->ast().

$template

Template-Toolkit template name. Default to 'perl5.tt2', available in this distribution.

$targetOptionHashp

Hash reference of options specific to target $target.

This method returns $self.

DESCRIPTION

This module provide and manage an AST of an IDL file, as per OMG's IDL 3.5 grammar specification.

NOTES

IDL version is 3.5 as of OMG IDL3.5 Specification.

This specification imposes input to come from a filename, with suffix '.idl'.

Any preprocessing feature is ignored, and eventual multi-line proprocessing directives are likely to cause failure. Since the most expected preprocessing tokens are #include, #ifdef, and al., the user is expected to have already run a preprocessor before using this package.

SEE ALSO

Marpa::R2

SUPPORT

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MarpaX-Languages-IDL-AST. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.

Source Code

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

https://github.com/jddurand/marpax-languages-idl-ast

  git clone git://github.com/jddurand/marpax-languages-idl-ast.git

AUTHOR

Jean-Damien Durand <jeandamiendurand@free.fr>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Jean-Damien Durand.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm MarpaX::Languages::IDL::AST

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install MarpaX::Languages::IDL::AST