Some methods in parser definition are not invoked

The Grammar-Kit plugin itself is an example of how to write a grammar and generate a working parser. I am also writing a plugin based on Grammar-Kit, and I found some useful code in a plugin for the R language (https://code.google.com/p/r4intellij/). I also found another plugin based on Grammar-Kit which helped me understand how it works: http://code.google.com/p/ice-framework-idea-plugin/

There's a lot of trial and error before understanding how it works exactly, I had quite a lot of problems in the past two weeks, but in the end I'm very proud of what I have achieved so far :).

I guess you have an error in your Flex file, which is causing the NPE. From what I understood, it should be very "dumb", and not implement any rule (the BNF/parser will do that for you). You should only have statements like this:

"your_token" { return YourLanguage.THE_TOKEN_TYPE; }

Hi Bastien,

Thanks a lot for the example given, This error happens when I invoke the parserdefinition.

Below is my lexer




////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


package newair.org;

import com.intellij.lexer.FlexLexer;
import com.intellij.psi.tree.IElementType;


%%



%public
%class _jaggery2
%implements FlexLexer
%unicode
%function advance
%type IElementType
%eof{ return;
%eof}


/*line terminators */


   LineTerminator = \r|\n|\r\n
   InputCharacter = [^\r\n]

      WhiteSpace = {LineTerminator} | [ \t\f]+

    /* comments */


     TraditionalComment = "/*" [^*] ~"*/" | "/*" "*"+ "/"
     LineComment = "//" {InputCharacter}* {LineTerminator}

    /* identifiers */


     DecIntegerLiteral = 0 | [1-9][0-9]*



%state STRING

%%

     /*variables*/


      <YYINITIAL> {

     "request"  |
      "response" |
      "session"  |
      "application"  {return JaggeryTokenTypes.VARIABLE;}

     }



    /*output*/


      <YYINITIAL> {

     "print"  |
      "Log"   {return JaggeryTokenTypes.OUTPUT;}

     }

      /*Http Client*/


           <YYINITIAL> {

         "get"  |
          "post" |
          "put"  |
          "del"  |
          "XMLHttpRequest" {return JaggeryTokenTypes.CLIENT;}


           }


        /*utils*/


        <YYINITIAL> {

         "URIMatcher"  |
          "include"       {return JaggeryTokenTypes.UTILS;}


         }



        /*Feed*/


         <YYINITIAL> {

         "Feed"  |
          "Entry"       {return JaggeryTokenTypes.FEED;}


          }



          /*File System*/


         <YYINITIAL> {


          "File"       {return JaggeryTokenTypes.FILESYS;}

        }






          /*Data Storage*/


          <YYINITIAL> {

         "Database"  |
          "MetadataStore"       {return JaggeryTokenTypes.STORAGE;}


          }



           /*Dataformats*/


            <YYINITIAL> {

            "parse"  |
             "stringify"|
             "XML"        {return JaggeryTokenTypes.DATAFORMAT;}


          }



          /*Add-ons*/


            <YYINITIAL> {


              "Sender"     |
              "WSRequest"  |
              "WSStub"     {return JaggeryTokenTypes.ADDONS;}



         }


<YYINITIAL>{
       {LineTerminator}     {return JaggeryTokenTypes.LINE_TERMINATOR;}
     {WhiteSpace} {return JaggeryTokenTypes.WHITE_SPACE;}
     {TraditionalComment}     {return JaggeryTokenTypes.BLOCKCOMMENT;}
     {LineComment}            {return JaggeryTokenTypes.LINECOMMENT;}


     {DecIntegerLiteral} {return JaggeryTokenTypes.INTEGER;}

    \"                   { yybegin(STRING); }

}



   <STRING> {
   \"      { yybegin(YYINITIAL);

            return JaggeryTokenTypes.STRING;


           }
    }



.    {
         yybegin(YYINITIAL);
         return JaggeryTokenTypes.BAD_CHARACTER; }






//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


What am I doing wrong here. And one thing I noticed in your lexer.java is that there is zzBufferArray which is not created in mine.
Your kind help is highly appreciated




Thanks..!!

Hi,

I think I found the mistake. I had put wrong skeleton file. It should be idea-flex.skeleton.flex. And after replacing zzBuffer[zzCurrentPosL++] by zzBufferL.charAt(zzCurrentPosL++)
issues solved.

Thanks.!!