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Javadocs are for the latest build are on the Javadocs page.Īdd this dependency to your project pom.xml:.Maven Artifacts are available on the Sonatype Nexus repository.Release builds are available on the Releases page.Whereby each grammar instance implements an executable parser. The framework effectively provides a Domain Specific Language for expressing language grammars, It also provides combinators that allow more complex parsers to be constructed by composing existing parsers. Parsers for constituent language elements such as characters, words and numbers. The framework provides the basic building blocks. Which use a monad to encapsulate the plumbing. Obscures the relationship between the parsing functions and the language rulesĪre an extension of recursive descent parsing, Is that the extra plumbing required to implement error-handling and backtracking Obviating the need for a separate grammar language and the consequent code-generation phase. The advantage here is that the rules are expressed in the host programming language, Whereby the production rules comprising the grammarĪre translated by hand into parse functions. The parsing code for the language is then generated from the grammar definition.Īn alternative approach is to implement a With these tools the language is expressed as a series of production rules,ĭescribed using a grammar language specific to the tool. Is to use a parser generation tool, such as Yacc/Bison or ANTLR. Lightweight library (the Jar file size is less than 50Kb) with zero dependencies (aside from JUnit and JMH for the tests).Ī typical approach to implementing parsers for special-purpose languages.A combinator approach that mirrors that of Parsec, its Haskell counterpart, allowing grammars written for Parsec to be translated into equivalent ParsecJ grammars.Thread-safe due to immutable parsers and inputs.Informative error messages in the event of parse failures.Composable parser combinators, which provide a DSL for implementing parsers from grammars.The implementation is, where possible, a direct Java port of the Haskell code outlined in the original Parsec paper. It is a port of the Haskell Parsec library. ParsecJ is a Java monadic parser combinator framework for constructing LL(1) parsers. The latter uses an applicative framework instead of monads, but is otherwise very similar to ParsecJ. ⚠️ Note: ParsecJ has been superceded by funcj.parser.