Package org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree

Interface ParseTree

All Superinterfaces:
SyntaxTree, Tree
All Known Subinterfaces:
ErrorNode, RuleNode, TerminalNode
All Known Implementing Classes:
ErrorNodeImpl, GrammarInterpreterRuleContext, InterpreterRuleContext, ParserRuleContext, RuleContext, RuleContextWithAltNum, TerminalNodeImpl
public interface ParseTree extends SyntaxTree
An interface to access the tree of RuleContext objects created during a parse that makes the data structure look like a simple parse tree. This node represents both internal nodes, rule invocations, and leaf nodes, token matches.

The payload is either a Token or a RuleContext object.

  • Method Details

    • getParent

      ParseTree getParent()
      Description copied from interface: Tree
      The parent of this node. If the return value is null, then this node is the root of the tree.
      Specified by:
      getParent in interface Tree

    • getChild

      ParseTree getChild(int i)
      Description copied from interface: Tree
      If there are children, get the ith value indexed from 0.
      Specified by:
      getChild in interface Tree

    • setParent

      void setParent(RuleContext parent)
      Set the parent for this node. This is not backward compatible as it changes the interface but no one was able to create custom nodes anyway so I'm adding as it improves internal code quality. One could argue for a restructuring of the class/interface hierarchy so that setParent, addChild are moved up to Tree but that's a major change. So I'll do the minimal change, which is to add this method.
      Since:
      4.7

    • accept

      <T> T accept(ParseTreeVisitor<? extends T> visitor)
      The ParseTreeVisitor needs a double dispatch method.

    • getText

      String getText()
      Return the combined text of all leaf nodes. Does not get any off-channel tokens (if any) so won't return whitespace and comments if they are sent to parser on hidden channel.

    • toStringTree

      String toStringTree(Parser parser)
      Specialize toStringTree so that it can print out more information based upon the parser.