TAP::Parser::Grammar(3User Contributed Perl DocumentatiTAP::Parser::Grammar(3)

NAME
       TAP::Parser::Grammar - A grammar for the Test Anything Protocol.

VERSION
       Version 3.28

SYNOPSIS
         use TAP::Parser::Grammar;
         my $grammar = $self->makegrammar({
           iterator => $tapparseriterator,
           parser   => $tapparser,
           version  => 12,
         });

         my $result = $grammar->tokenize;

DESCRIPTION
       "TAP::Parser::Grammar" tokenizes lines from a TAP::Parser::Iterator and
       constructs TAP::Parser::Result subclasses to represent the tokens.

       Do not attempt to use this class directly.  It won't make sense.  It's
       mainly here to ensure that we will be able to have pluggable grammars
       when TAP is expanded at some future date (plus, this stuff was really
       cluttering the parser).

METHODS
   Class Methods
       "new"

         my $grammar = TAP::Parser::Grammar->new({
             iterator => $iterator,
             parser   => $parser,
             version  => $version,
         });

       Returns TAP::Parser grammar object that will parse the TAP stream from
       the specified iterator.  Both "iterator" and "parser" are required
       arguments.  If "version" is not set it defaults to 12 (see
       "setversion" for more details).

   Instance Methods
       "setversion"

         $grammar->setversion(13);

       Tell the grammar which TAP syntax version to support. The lowest
       supported version is 12. Although 'TAP version' isn't valid version 12
       syntax it is accepted so that higher version numbers may be parsed.

       "tokenize"

         my $token = $grammar->tokenize;

       This method will return a TAP::Parser::Result object representing the
       current line of TAP.

       "tokentypes"

         my @types = $grammar->tokentypes;

       Returns the different types of tokens which this grammar can parse.

       "syntaxfor"

         my $syntax = $grammar->syntaxfor($tokentype);

       Returns a pre-compiled regular expression which will match a chunk of
       TAP corresponding to the token type.  For example (not that you should
       really pay attention to this, "$grammar->syntaxfor('comment')" will
       return "qr/^#(.*)/".

       "handlerfor"

         my $handler = $grammar->handlerfor($tokentype);

       Returns a code reference which, when passed an appropriate line of TAP,
       returns the lexed token corresponding to that line.  As a result, the
       basic TAP parsing loop looks similar to the following:

        my @tokens;
        my $grammar = TAP::Grammar->new;
        LINE: while ( defined( my $line = $parser->nextchunkoftap ) ) {
            for my $type ( $grammar->tokentypes ) {
                my $syntax  = $grammar->syntaxfor($type);
                if ( $line =~ $syntax ) {
                    my $handler = $grammar->handlerfor($type);
                    push @tokens => $grammar->$handler($line);
                    next LINE;
                }
            }
            push @tokens => $grammar->makeunknowntoken($line);
        }

TAP GRAMMAR
       NOTE:  This grammar is slightly out of date.  There's still some
       discussion about it and a new one will be provided when we have things
       better defined.

       The TAP::Parser does not use a formal grammar because TAP is
       essentially a stream-based protocol.  In fact, it's quite legal to have
       an infinite stream.  For the same reason that we don't apply regexes to
       streams, we're not using a formal grammar here.  Instead, we parse the
       TAP in lines.

       For purposes for forward compatibility, any result which does not match
       the following grammar is currently referred to as
       TAP::Parser::Result::Unknown.  It is not a parse error.

       A formal grammar would look similar to the following:

        (*
            For the time being, I'm cheating on the EBNF by allowing
            certain terms to be defined by POSIX character classes by
            using the following syntax:

              digit ::= [:digit:]

            As far as I am aware, that's not valid EBNF.  Sue me.  I
            didn't know how to write "char" otherwise (Unicode issues).
            Suggestions welcome.
        *)

        tap            ::= version? { comment | unknown } leadingplan lines
                           |
                           lines trailingplan {comment}

        version        ::= 'TAP version ' positiveInteger {positiveInteger} "\n"

        leadingplan   ::= plan skipdirective? "\n"

        trailingplan  ::= plan "\n"

        plan           ::= '1..' nonNegativeInteger

        lines          ::= line {line}

        line           ::= (comment | test | unknown | bailout ) "\n"

        test           ::= status positiveInteger? description? directive?

        status         ::= 'not '? 'ok '

        description    ::= (character - (digit | '#')) {character - '#'}

        directive      ::= tododirective | skipdirective

        tododirective ::= hashmark 'TODO' ' ' {character}

        skipdirective ::= hashmark 'SKIP' ' ' {character}

        comment        ::= hashmark {character}

        hashmark      ::= '#' {' '}

        bailout        ::= 'Bail out!' {character}

        unknown        ::= { (character - "\n") }

        (* POSIX character classes and other terminals *)

        digit              ::= [:digit:]
        character          ::= ([:print:] - "\n")
        positiveInteger    ::= ( digit - '0' ) {digit}
        nonNegativeInteger ::= digit {digit}

SUBCLASSING
       Please see "SUBCLASSING" in TAP::Parser for a subclassing overview.

       If you really want to subclass TAP::Parser's grammar the best thing to
       do is read through the code.  There's no easy way of summarizing it
       here.

SEE ALSO
       TAP::Object, TAP::Parser, TAP::Parser::Iterator, TAP::Parser::Result,



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