com.sonar.sslr.api
Interface AstNodeSkippingPolicy

All Superinterfaces:

AstNodeType

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlwaysSkipFromAst, MutableParsingRule, NeverSkipFromAst, RuleDefinition, SkipFromAstIfOnlyOneChild

public interface AstNodeSkippingPolicy
extends AstNodeType

Specific Ast node types that can tell whether they should be skipped from being attached to the AST or not.

See Also:

AstVisitor, Grammar, AstNode

Method Summary

boolean

hasToBeSkippedFromAst(AstNode node) Some AstNode can be pretty useless and makes a global AST less readable.

Method Detail

hasToBeSkippedFromAst

boolean hasToBeSkippedFromAst(AstNode node)

Some AstNode can be pretty useless and makes a global AST less readable. This method allows to automatically remove those AstNode from the AST.

Parameters:

node - the node that should or not be removed from the AST

Returns:

true if AstNode with this type must be skipped from the AST.