How do I perform custom error reporting in ANTLR using python?

Question

I'm writing a simple parser for my compilers class (just a proof of concept that I can get the tools working) and am using ANTLR with python bindings. I've gotten our trivial grammar to properly tokenize and parse, but I want to also handle the errors in a custom way. According to the ANTLR documentation (more specifically: http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Error+reporting+and+recovery), I can put the following code in my grammar file to do so:

@members {
    private List<String> errors = new LinkedList<String>();
    public void displayRecognitionError(String[] tokenNames,
                                        RecognitionException e) {
        String hdr = getErrorHeader(e);
        String msg = getErrorMessage(e, tokenNames);
        errors.add(hdr + " " + msg);
    }
    public List<String> getErrors() {
        return errors;
    }
}

However, this is a Java example that I can't seem to replicate in python (I can replicate the code, but just can't really seem to get it to run). Does anyone know how I might go about doing so?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 11 '12 at 17:19

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I managed to find a solution to my problem:

@members {
def displayRecognitionError(self, tokenNames, e):
    # do something
    pass

antlr3.BaseRecognizer.displayRecognitionError = displayRecognitionError
}

edited Apr 11 '12 at 17:19

Bart Kiers

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answered Apr 11 '12 at 16:33

Chris Covert

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Can't accept my own answer yet, but will do so tomorrow if no better solution comes up. – Chris Covert Apr 11 '12 at 16:34
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That seems like a good way to handle it: I don't expect any other answers! :) – Bart Kiers Apr 11 '12 at 17:43

How do I perform custom error reporting in ANTLR using python?

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