com.tangosol.coherence.dsltools.base

Class BaseToken

java.lang.Object

com.tangosol.coherence.dsltools.base.BaseToken

Direct Known Subclasses:

CompoundBaseToken, LeafBaseToken

public abstract class BaseToken
extends Object

BaseToken is the abstract base class for all tokens processed by the low level BaseTokenScanner. The resulting hierarchy represents very simple syntactic elements.

Author:

djl 2009.03.14

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BaseToken()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getSimpleName() Return the simple class name for this instance.
abstract boolean	isCompound() Answer whether this token is a compound token.
boolean	isIdentifier() Answer whether this token represents an identifier.
abstract boolean	isLeaf() Answer whether this token is a leaf token.
boolean	isLiteral() Answer whether this token represents a literal.
boolean	isNest() Answer whether this token represents a nested collection of tokens.
boolean	isOperator() Answer whether this token represents a know operator.
boolean	isPunctuation() Answer whether this token represents a punctuation character.
boolean	match(String s) Answer whether this token matches the given string.
abstract boolean	match(String s, boolean fIgnoreCaseFlag) Answer whether this token matches the given string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BaseToken

public BaseToken()

Method Detail

isLeaf

public abstract boolean isLeaf()

Answer whether this token is a leaf token.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token a leaf?"

isCompound

public abstract boolean isCompound()

Answer whether this token is a compound token.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token compound?"

isLiteral

public boolean isLiteral()

Answer whether this token represents a literal.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token a literal?"

isOperator

public boolean isOperator()

Answer whether this token represents a know operator.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token an operator?"

isIdentifier

public boolean isIdentifier()

Answer whether this token represents an identifier.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token an identifier?"

isNest

public boolean isNest()

Answer whether this token represents a nested collection of tokens.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token a nesting of tokens?"

isPunctuation

public boolean isPunctuation()

Answer whether this token represents a punctuation character.

Returns:

the answer to the question "is this token a punctuation character?"

match

public boolean match(String s)

Answer whether this token matches the given string. By default case matters.

Parameters:

s - the String to match agains

Returns:

the answer to the question "does this token match a given string?

match

public abstract boolean match(String s,
                              boolean fIgnoreCaseFlag)

Answer whether this token matches the given string.

Parameters:

s - the String to match agains

fIgnoreCaseFlag - the flag that controls if case matters

Returns:

the answer to the question "does this token match a given string?

getSimpleName

public String getSimpleName()

Return the simple class name for this instance.

Returns:

the class name without the package path