gate.jape
Class PatternElement

java.lang.Object
  gate.jape.PatternElement

All Implemented Interfaces:

JapeConstants, Serializable, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicPatternElement, ComplexPatternElement, ConstraintGroup

public abstract class PatternElement
extends Object
implements Cloneable, JapeConstants, Serializable

Superclass of the various types of pattern element, and of ConstraintGroup. Inherits from Matcher, providing matches and reset. Provides access to the annotations that are cached by subclasses, and multilevel rollback of those caches. Stores the match history.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

private static boolean	DEBUG Debug flag
protected Stack	matchHistory Match history stack, for use in rollback.

Fields inherited from interface gate.jape.JapeConstants

ALL_STYLE, APPELT_STYLE, BRILL_STYLE, DEFAULT_PRIORITY, FIRST_STYLE, INDENT_PADDING, KLEENE_PLUS, KLEENE_QUERY, KLEENE_STAR, MULTI_SPAN_BINDING, NO_BINDING, NO_KLEENE_OP, ONCE_STYLE, SINGLE_SPAN_BINDING

Constructor Summary

PatternElement()
Anonymous construction.

Method Summary

Object	clone() Cloning for processing of macro references.
abstract void	finish() Finishes the JAPE language parsing, building all the in-memory structures required.
abstract String	toString(String pad) Create a string representation of the object with padding.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DEBUG

private static final boolean DEBUG

Debug flag

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Constant Field Values

matchHistory

protected Stack matchHistory

Match history stack, for use in rollback. In BasicPatternElements the objects on the stack are Integers giving the number of annots that were cached at that point in the history. In ComplexPatternElements the objects are Integers giving the number of times the component ConstraintGroup was successfully matched. In ConstraintGroups the elements are arrays representing conjunctions of PatternElement that succeeded at that point in the history.

Constructor Detail

PatternElement

public PatternElement()

Anonymous construction.

Method Detail

clone

public Object clone()

Cloning for processing of macro references. Note that it doesn't really clone the match history, just set it to a new Stack. This is because a) JGL doesn't have real clone methods and b) we don't actually need it anywhere but during parsing the .jape, where there is no match history yet.

Overrides:

clone in class Object

finish

public abstract void finish()

Finishes the JAPE language parsing, building all the in-memory structures required.

toString

public abstract String toString(String pad)

Create a string representation of the object with padding.