Sometimes it is good to use facilities to rapid parboiled2 parsers prototyping right in the console. Let’s use sbt of version 0.13.8:
$ mkdir project
$ echo "sbt.version=0.13.8" > project/build.properties
When minimal project is set up, sbt can be launched:
$ sbt
> sbt
Let’s setup Scala compiler version compatible with parboiled2, and add dependency to it. And then run Scala interpreter with console command:
sbt> set scalaVersion := "2.11.7"
sbt> set libraryDependencies += "org.parboiled" %% "parboiled" % "2.1.0"
sbt> console
scala>
We need to import namespace:
scala> import org.parboiled2._
Now console is ready to accept parser implementation. parboiled2 parsers are easier to understand in infix notation. On the other hand this make hard to paste parser code to interpreter line by line. We would you :paste command for that:
scala> :paste
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)
class Calculator1(val input: ParserInput) extends Parser {
def InputLine = rule { Expression ~ EOI }
def Expression: Rule1[Int] = rule {
Term ~ zeroOrMore(
'+' ~ Term ~> ((_: Int) + _) |
'-' ~ Term ~> ((_: Int) - _))
}
def Term = rule {
Factor ~ zeroOrMore(
'*' ~ Factor ~> ((_: Int) * _) |
'/' ~ Factor ~> ((_: Int) / _))
}
def Factor = rule { Number | Parens }
def Parens = rule { '(' ~ Expression ~ ')' }
def Number = rule { capture(Digits) ~> (_.toInt) }
def Digits = rule { oneOrMore(CharPredicate.Digit) }
}
// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.
defined class Calculator1
Now having Calculator1 defined in the environment we could parse a string with instance of it:
scala> new Calculator1("1+2*3").InputLine.run()
res0: scala.util.Try[Int] = Success(7)
scala> new Calculator1("a").InputLine.run()
res1: scala.util.Try[Int] = Failure(ParseError(Position(0,1,1), Position(0,1,1), <2 traces>))
parboiled2 utilities could be used for res1 pretty-formatting as follows:
scala> import scala.util.Failure
import scala.util.Failure
scala> val calc = new Calculator1("a")
calc: Calculator1 = Calculator1@5ed32ee0
scala> val Failure(e: ParseError) = calc.InputLine.run()
e: org.parboiled2.ParseError = ParseError(Position(0,1,1), Position(0,1,1), <2 traces>)
scala> calc.formatError(e)
res2: String =
Invalid input 'a', expected Number or Parens (line 1, column 1):
a
^
Happy parsing with sbt!