ocaml-containers/src/string/app_parse.mli

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(** {1 Applicative Parser Combinators}

    Example: basic S-expr parser

{[
  open Containers_string.App_parse;;

  type sexp = Atom of string | List of sexp list;;

  let mkatom a = Atom a;;
  let mklist l = List l;;

  let ident_char = alpha_num <+> any_of "|!;$#@%&-_/=*.:~+[]<>'" ;;
  let ident = many1 ident_char >|= str_of_l ;;
  let atom = (ident <+> quoted) >|= mkatom ;;

  let sexp = fix (fun sexp ->
    white >>
      (atom <+>
       ((char '(' >> many sexp << char ')') >|= mklist)
      )
  );;

  Str.parse_exn "(a (b c d) e)" sexp;;

]}

{b status: experimental}
@since 0.10
*)

type ('a,'b) result = [`Error of 'b | `Ok of 'a]

type 'a t
(** Parser that yields an error or a value of type 'a *)

(** {6 Combinators} *)

val return : 'a -> 'a t
(** Parser that succeeds with the given value *)

val pure : 'a -> 'a t
(** Synonym to {!return} *)

val junk : unit t
(** Skip next char *)

val fail : string -> 'a t
(** [fail msg] fails with the given error message *)

val failf : ('a, unit, string, 'b t) format4 -> 'a

val app : ('a -> 'b) t -> 'a t -> 'b t
(** Applicative *)

val map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t
(** Map the parsed value *)

val int : int t
(** Parse an integer *)

val float : float t
(** Parse a floating point number *)

val bool : bool t
(** Parse "true" or "false" *)

val char : char -> char t
(** [char c] parses [c] and [c] only *)

val any_of : string -> char t
(** Parse any of the chars present in the given string *)

val alpha_lower : char t

val alpha_upper : char t

val alpha : char t

val symbols : char t
(** symbols, such as "!-=_"... *)

val num : char t

val alpha_num : char t

val word : string t
(** [word] parses any identifier not starting with an integer and
    not containing any whitespace nor delimiter
    TODO: specify *)

val quoted : string t
(** Quoted string, following OCaml conventions *)

val str_of_l : char list -> string
(** Helper to build strings from lists of chars *)

val spaces : unit t
(** Parse a sequence of ['\t'] and [' '] *)

val spaces1 : unit t
(** Same as {!spaces} but requires at least one space *)

val white : unit t
(** Parse a sequence of ['\t'], ['\n'] and [' '] *)

val white1 : unit t

val eof : unit t
(** Matches the end of input, fails otherwise *)

val many : ?sep:unit t -> 'a t -> 'a list t
(** 0 or more parsed elements of the given type.
    @param sep separator between elements of the list (for instance, {!space}) *)

val many1 : ?sep:unit t -> 'a t -> 'a list t
(** Same as {!many}, but needs at least one element *)

val skip : _ t -> unit t
(** Skip 0 or more instances of the given parser *)

val skip1 : _ t -> unit t

val opt : 'a t -> 'a option t
(** [opt x] tries to parse [x], and returns [None] otherwise *)

val filter : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t
(** [filter f p] parses the same as [p], but fails if the returned value
    does not satisfy [f] *)


(* TODO: complement operator any_but (all but \, for instance) *)
(* TODO: a "if-then-else" combinator (assuming the test has a
   set of possible first chars) *)

val switch_c : ?default:'a t -> (char * 'a t) list -> 'a t
(** [switch_c l] matches the next char and uses the corresponding parser.
    Fails if the next char is not in the list, unless default is defined.
    @param default parser to use if no char matches
    @raise Invalid_argument if some char occurs several times in [l] *)

val switch_s : (string * 'a t) list -> 'a t
(** [switch_s l] attempts to match matches any of the strings in [l].
    If one of those strings matches, the corresponding parser
    is used from now on.
    @raise Invalid_argument if some string is a prefix of another string,
          or is empty, or if the list is empty *)

val choice : 'a t list -> 'a t
(** [choice l] chooses between the parsers, unambiguously
    @raise Invalid_argument if the list is empty, or if some parsers
    overlap, making the choice ambiguous *)

val fix : ('a t -> 'a t) -> 'a t
(** [fix f] makes a fixpoint *)

module Infix : sig
  val (>|=) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b t
  (** Infix version of {!map} *)

  val (<*>) : ('a -> 'b) t -> 'a t -> 'b t
  (** Synonym to {!app} *)

  val (>>) : _ t -> 'a t -> 'a t
  (** [a >> b] parses [a], ignores its result, then parses [b] *)

  val (<<) : 'a t -> _ t -> 'a t
  (** [a << b] parses [a], then [b], and discards [b] to return [a] *)

  val (<+>) : 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t
  (** [a <+> b] is [choice [a;b]], a binary choice *)

  val (<::>) : 'a t -> 'a list t -> 'a list t
  (** [a <::> b] is [app (fun x l -> x::l) a b] *)
end

include module type of Infix

(** {2 Signatures} *)

(** {6 Parsing} *)

type error = {
  line: int;
  col: int;
  msg: string;
}

val string_of_error : error -> string

exception Error of error

module type S = sig
  type source
  (** Source of characters *)

  val parse : source -> 'a t -> ('a, error) result
  (** Parse the given source using the parser, and returns the parsed value. *)

  val parse': source -> 'a t -> ('a, string) result
  (** Same as {!parse}, but returns a user-friendly string in case of failure *)

  val parse_exn : source -> 'a t -> 'a
  (** Unsafe version of {!parse}.
      @raise Error if parsing fails *)
end

(** {2 Parse} *)

module type INPUT = sig
  type t

  val read : t -> Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int
end

module Make(I : INPUT) : S with type source = I.t

(** {2 Low-level interface} *)

val print : Format.formatter -> _ t -> unit
(** Print a parser structure, for debug purpose *)

type token =
  | Yield of char
  | EOF

module type READER = sig
  type t
  type source (* underlying source *)

  val create : source -> t
  val peek : t -> token  (* peek; do not consume *)
  val next : t -> token  (* read and consume *)
  val junk : t -> unit   (* consume last token, obtained with junk *)
  val line : t -> int
  val col : t -> int
end

module MakeFromReader(R : READER) : S with type source = R.source

(** {2 Defaults} *)

module Str : S with type source = string

module Chan : S with type source = in_channel