I have developed a complex grammar using Antlr 3 using AST tree. ANTLR generates the Lexer and Parser. The problem is that when the user enters a syntax that is not valid for example, the grammar is expecting ';'. The user does not enter this, then in my Eclipse IDE I get the following Exception:
line 1:24 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting ';'
How can this Exception be handled because I try to catch this Exception, but the Exception is not catched. Is this an Exception at all? I don't seem to understand why this Exception is not caught. I tried to find out, however the Antlr website seems to be down for some time now.
I looked at the following: ANTLR exception handling with "$", Java and followed that example, but when the Lexer generates the code by adding the RuntimeException(), I get unreachable code.
I am not sure what to do.
When I try to get the number of syntax errors from the parser it displays 0.
EDIT:
I have found a solution that works by looking at: ANTLR not throwing errors on invalid input
However, when I try to get the Exception message back, it is null. Have I set everything up correctly? Please see sample grammar:
grammar i;
options {
output=AST;
}
@header {
package com.data;
}
@rulecatch {
catch(RecognitionException e) {
throw e;
}
}
// by having these below it makes no difference
/**@parser::members {
@Override
public void reportError(RecognitionException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Exception : " + " " + e.getMessage());
}
}
@lexer::members {
@Override
public void reportError(RecognitionException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Exception : " + " " + e.getMessage());
}
}*/
EDIT:
Please see what I have so far:
grammar i;
options {
output=AST;
}
@header {
package com.data;
}
@rulecatch {
// ANTLR does not generate its normal rule try/catch
catch(RecognitionException e) {
throw e;
}
}
@parser::members {
@Override
public void displayRecognitionError(String[] tokenNames, RecognitionException e) {
String hdr = getErrorHeader(e);
String msg = getErrorMessage(e, tokenNames);
throw new RuntimeException(hdr + ":" + msg);
}
}
@lexer::members {
@Override
public void displayRecognitionError(String[] tokenNames, RecognitionException e) {
String hdr = getErrorHeader(e);
String msg = getErrorMessage(e, tokenNames);
throw new RuntimeException(hdr + ":" + msg);
}
}
operatorLogic : 'AND' | 'OR';
value : STRING;
query : (select)*;
select : 'SELECT'^ functions 'FROM table' filters?';';
operator : '=' | '!=' | '<' | '>' | '<=' | '>=';
filters : 'WHERE'^ conditions;
members : STRING operator value;
conditions : (members (operatorLogic members)*);
functions : '*';
STRING : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z')+;
WS : (' '|'\t'|'\f'|'\n'|'\r')+ {skip();}; // handle white space between keywords
public class Processor {
public Processor() {
}
/**
* This method builds the MQL Parser.
* @param args the args.
* @return the built IParser.
*/
private IParser buildMQLParser(String query) {
CharStream cs = new ANTLRStringStream(query);
// the input needs to be lexed
ILexer lexer = new ILexer(cs);
CommonTokenStream tokens = new CommonTokenStream();
IParser parser = new IParser(tokens);
tokens.setTokenSource(lexer);
// use the ASTTreeAdaptor so that the grammar is aware to build tree in AST format
parser.setTreeAdaptor((TreeAdaptor) new ASTTreeAdaptor().getASTTreeAdaptor());
return parser;
}
/**
* This method parses the MQL query.
* @param query the query.
*/
public void parseMQL(String query) {
IParser parser = buildMQLParser(query);
CommonTree commonTree = null;
try {
commonTree = (CommonTree) parser.query().getTree();
}
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception :" + " " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}
public class ASTTreeAdaptor {
public ASTTreeAdaptor() {
}
/**
* This method is used to create a TreeAdaptor.
* @return a treeAdaptor.
*/
public Object getASTTreeAdaptor() {
TreeAdaptor treeAdaptor = new CommonTreeAdaptor() {
public Object create(Token payload) {
return new CommonTree(payload);
}
};
return treeAdaptor;
}
}
So when I enter the following: SELECT * FROM table
without a ';' I get the a MismatchedTokenException:
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception : " + " " e);
}
When I try:
e.getMessage();
it returns null.