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/* Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
 * Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that
 * can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root.
 */

#pragma once

#include "antlr4-common.h"

namespace antlr4 {
namespace tree {
namespace xpath {

  /// Represent a subset of XPath XML path syntax for use in identifying nodes in
  /// parse trees.
  ///
  /// <para>
  /// Split path into words and separators {@code /} and {@code //} via ANTLR
  /// itself then walk path elements from left to right. At each separator-word
  /// pair, find set of nodes. Next stage uses those as work list.</para>
  ///
  /// <para>
  /// The basic interface is
  /// <seealso cref="XPath#findAll ParseTree.findAll"/>{@code (tree, pathString, parser)}.
  /// But that is just shorthand for:</para>
  ///
  /// <pre>
  /// <seealso cref="XPath"/> p = new <seealso cref="XPath#XPath XPath"/>(parser, pathString);
  /// return p.<seealso cref="#evaluate evaluate"/>(tree);
  /// </pre>
  ///
  /// <para>
  /// See {@code org.antlr.v4.test.TestXPath} for descriptions. In short, this
  /// allows operators:</para>
  ///
  /// <dl>
  /// <dt>/</dt> <dd>root</dd>
  /// <dt>//</dt> <dd>anywhere</dd>
  /// <dt>!</dt> <dd>invert; this must appear directly after root or anywhere
  /// operator</dd>
  /// </dl>
  ///
  /// <para>
  /// and path elements:</para>
  ///
  /// <dl>
  /// <dt>ID</dt> <dd>token name</dd>
  /// <dt>'string'</dt> <dd>any string literal token from the grammar</dd>
  /// <dt>expr</dt> <dd>rule name</dd>
  /// <dt>*</dt> <dd>wildcard matching any node</dd>
  /// </dl>
  ///
  /// <para>
  /// Whitespace is not allowed.</para>

  class ANTLR4CPP_PUBLIC XPath {
  public:
    static const std::string WILDCARD; // word not operator/separator
    static const std::string NOT; // word for invert operator

    XPath(Parser *parser, const std::string &path);
    virtual ~XPath() {}

    // TODO: check for invalid token/rule names, bad syntax
    virtual std::vector<std::unique_ptr<XPathElement>> split(const std::string &path);

    static std::vector<ParseTree *> findAll(ParseTree *tree, std::string const& xpath, Parser *parser);

    /// Return a list of all nodes starting at {@code t} as root that satisfy the
    /// path. The root {@code /} is relative to the node passed to
    /// <seealso cref="#evaluate"/>.
    virtual std::vector<ParseTree *> evaluate(ParseTree *t);

  protected:
    std::string _path;
    Parser *_parser;

    /// Convert word like {@code *} or {@code ID} or {@code expr} to a path
    /// element. {@code anywhere} is {@code true} if {@code //} precedes the
    /// word.
    virtual std::unique_ptr<XPathElement> getXPathElement(Token *wordToken, bool anywhere);
  };

} // namespace xpath
} // namespace tree
} // namespace antlr4