Thanks, Jim. Your suggestion worked. There were a few other workarounds we had to do, but we could now get it working.
Thanks again. :-) On 16-Apr-09, at 9:33 PM, Jim Idle wrote: > Kumar Rangarajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First things first. Thanks for creating such a wonderful tool. We use >> Antlr for our project work, and recently we switched to using >> composite grammars, as we are a distributed team, and multiple people >> need to modify various portions of the grammar file. >> >> While most things just work out of the box or could be trivially >> worked around, one breaking issue is related to the way the lexer is >> generated, if the composite grammar defines any lexer rules. I am >> using Java code generation, and we see that the contents of the >> "header" defined either in the composite file or in the central lexer >> file does not get copied to the generated lexer code. >> >> This breaks our packaging structure, as the package statement is >> normally mentioned in the "header" section of either the central or >> composite grammars, and because it does not propagate to the >> generated >> lexer code, it breaks compilation. >> >> I see that the same issue was reported last year and a bug has been >> filed for the same - http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-370 >> >> It would be great if anyone can provide a workaround for this or can >> provide any updates on the potential fix. >> >> Thanks again for creating this (I mean the tool, not the bug :)). > Kumar, > > It all works much better if you separate the lexer grammar into its > own > 'lexer grammar' file then import the vocab. The lexer is then > standalone > and can be in any package. Ther eis no particular reason you need to > import the grammar rather than the vocab in my experience. That said, > there is an issue at the moment that if you import the vocab then > accidentally use a token that you have not yet defined in the lexer, > you > do not get told about it, so watch for that one. > > I don't know the status of that JIRA, but maybe Terence will comment > later - he is in China right now. > > Jim > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: > http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
