pub/petitparser/lib/src/reflection/transform.dart

part of petitparser.reflection;

/// A function transforming one parser to another one.
typedef Parser TransformationHandler(Parser parser);

/// Transforms all parsers reachable from [parser] with the given [handler].
/// The identity function returns a copy of the the incoming parser.
///
/// The implementation first creates a copy of each parser reachable in the
/// input grammar; then the resulting grammar is traversed until all references
/// to old parsers are replaced with the transformed ones.
Parser transformParser(Parser parser, TransformationHandler handler) {
  Map<Parser, Parser> mapping = new Map.identity();
  for (var each in allParser(parser)) {
    mapping[each] = handler(each.copy());
  }
  Set<Parser> seen = new Set.from(mapping.values);
  List<Parser> todo = new List.from(mapping.values);
  while (todo.isNotEmpty) {
    var parent = todo.removeLast();
    for (var child in parent.children) {
      if (mapping.containsKey(child)) {
        parent.replace(child, mapping[child]);
      } else if (!seen.contains(child)) {
        seen.add(child);
        todo.add(child);
      }
    }
  }
  return mapping[parser];
}