## Parser hooks

For parsers, a hooks class must always be specified. The scanner and all parsers share a single (non-generic) hooks class. The following specification (from which we omit the scanner part):

    @hooks some.package.SomeHooks;

    @import some.package.ast;

    @main Expression : some.package.ExpressionParser;

    {ast.Expression}
    Expression : /* empty */
               | Expression @PLUSTK Literal
               | Expression MINUSTK Literal
               ;

    {ast.Literal}
    Literal : @IDTK
            | PITK
            ;

requires a `some.package.SomeHooks` Java class, with a default (parameterless) constructor, and five methods, with the following signatures:

    public Expression parseExpression1();

    public Expression parseExpression2(Expression e1, Token t2, Literal l3);

    public Expression parseExpression3(Expression e1, Literal l3);

    public Literal parseLiteral1(Token t1);

    public Literal parseLiteral2();

The return types are determined by the non-terminals. The names of the methods are formed from the text `parse`, the name of the non-terminal, and number of the rule, within the non-terminal. Note that all numbers have equal length. For instance `01`, `02`, `03`, …​, `12`. The parameters consist of all the non-terminals that make up the , as well and those terminals with a `@` before them. The types of the non-terminal parameters are the types of the corresponding non-terminals. For terminals, the type is the `org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.Token` class. The parameter names are formed from their types (first character of the simple name of the class, in lower case), followed by the number of the symbol in the rule, without any `0` prefixes. All numbers start counting at one (`1`).

Note that each generated parser has an inner interface named `Hooks` that defines all the required call back hook methods. The hooks class must implement the interface(s). This interface specifies one additional method, which all parser hooks classes must implement:

    public void setParser<Parser<?> parser);

where the `Parser<?>` class is the `org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.Parser` class. This method is provided to allow hooks classes access to the parser that creates the hooks class, and its source information. For more information, see the `getSource` method of the `Parser` class.

An implementation of a hooks class for this example could look like this:

    package some.package;

    import org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.Parser;
    import org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.Token;
    import some.package.ast.Expression;
    import some.package.ast.Literal;

    public class SomeHooks implements ExpressionParser.Hooks {
        @Override
        public void setParser(Parser<?> parser) {
            // No need to store this...
        }

        @Override
        public Expression parseExpression1() {
            return null; // Do something more useful here...
        }

        @Override
        public Expression parseExpression2(Expression e1, Token t2, Literal l3) {
            return null; // Do something more useful here...
        }

        @Override
        public Expression parseExpression3(Expression e1, Literal l3) {
            return null; // Do something more useful here...
        }

        @Override
        public Literal parseLiteral1(Token t1) {
            return null; // Do something more useful here...
        }

        @Override
        public Literal parseLiteral2() {
            return null; // Do something more useful here...
        }
    }

It is allowed to throw `org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.exceptions.SyntaxException` exceptions in the hooks methods. Furthermore, it is allowed to add fold regions to the parser (which then needs to be stored as it is provided via the `setParser` hook method), using the `addFoldRange` methods of the `org.eclipse.escet.setext.runtime.Parser` class.