Changelog

5.3.0

• Maintenance release deprecating some old code in anticipation of the upcoming major release.
• Deprecate the old way of defining primitive parsers and move the functionality directly to ExpressionBuilder.
• Deprecate GrammarDefinition.build(Function, List<Object?>), use buildFrom(Parser) for a strongly typed parser instead.
• Replace various uses of exception throwing with assertions, which yields code the compiler can optimize better.

5.2.0

• Add @useResult to parser constructors to avoid bugs when using the old parser instance.
• Add a linter rule to detect unoptimized flatten parsers.

5.1.0

• Dart 2.18 requirement.
• Add seq2, seq3, ... combinator functions returning strongly typed sequences of Sequence2<R1, R2>, Sequence3<R1, R2, R3>, ...
• Add Parser.starSeparated, Parser.plusSeparated, Parser.timesSeparated, and Parser.repeatSeparated returning SeparatedList with the strongly typed elements and separators. Deprecate the dynamically typed Parser.separatedBy.
• Add Parser.matchesAll that creates a lazy iterable over the (overlapping or non-overlapping) successful parse results. Deprecate matches and matchesSkipping.
• Add a native platform independent newline parser.
• Add a section on debugging to the tutorial.
• Remove the deprecated ref0, ref1, ... instance methods, these methods are globally defined since 4.2.0.
• Make GrammarDefinition and GrammarDefinition.start() optionally typed.

5.0.0

• Dart 2.16 requirement.
• Moved PetitParser examples to a separate Git repository: https://github.com/petitparser/dart-petitparser-examples.
• Add a skip helper that silently consumes input before and/or after another parser.
• Make the ExpressionBuilder<T> statically typed. This requires existing code to specify the desired result type, and provide all reduction actions.
• Deprecate hasSideEffect in MapParser by considering all callbacks to have side-effects, the benefit of the added complications is negligible.
• Add charIgnoringCase, and provide better standard error messages for character parsers.
• Add initial support for indentation based grammars.

4.4.0

• Dart 2.15 requirement.
• Add a PatternParser that allows to use any Dart Pattern as a parser.
• Greatly improve the test coverage of all code to 98%.

4.3.0

• Dart 2.14 requirement.
• Add a labeled parser, that allows to add a debug label to the parser graph.
• Extract Predicate<T> and Callback<T> function types to shared file.
• Change debug functions to named arguments, and generate output events with first class objects instead of strings.
• Various improvements to the Analyzer:
  • Compute all deeply referenced children.
  • Compute all paths or the shortest path between parsers.
• Fix inaccuracies in character parser documentation and tutorial.
• Add more grammar linter rules that detect common bugs.

4.2.0

• Dart 2.13 requirement.
• ref0, ref1, ref2, ... is now also usable outside of GrammarDefinition.
  • Use resolve to inline all the referenced parsers, which now also works with SettableParser.
  • Deprecated removeSettables, that is superseded by the more powerful resolve operation.
• Add the possibility to join multiple Token and transform their values.
• Add Analyzer to compute nullability, as well as first-, follow-, and cycle-sets of parsers.
• Add a linter that performs a series of checks on grammar graphs.
• Expand the tutorial with a section on testing.

4.1.0

• Add the option to select the failure join strategy on ChoiceParser parsers:
  • selectLast is the default strategy, reporting the failure of the last parser tried.
  • selectFarthest reports the parser failure the farthest down in the input string, preferring later failures to earlier ones.
  • selectFarthestJoined is the same as above, but joins error messages that happen at the same position.
• Properly type all delegate parsers in choice, sequence, repeat, action, ...
  • Fix typing in transformParser and its users (debug tools, optimizers). To fix type your transformation function.
  • Fix typing of GrammarDefinition and reference parsers. To take advantage replace uses of ref with ref0, ref1, ...
  • Deprecate GrammarParser, a no longer needed wrapper around GrammarDefinition. Call build() on the definition to get the parser.
• Improve documentation and add a tutorial section on GrammarDefinition.

4.0.0

• Dart 2.12 requirement and null-safety.
• Success.message throws an UnsupportedError exception, instead of returning null.
• DelegateParser has been made abstract to avoid a concrete class in-between abstract classes.
• Parser.delegate() has been removed, use Parser.settable() as an equivalent replacement.
• Parser.optional() is now returning Parser<T?>, to provide a non-null default value use Parser.optionalWith(T value).
• Parser.not() is now returning the failure Parser<Failure<T>> as success value, instead of null.
• epsilon() is now returning Parser<void>, to provide a non-null default value use epsilonWith(T value).
• Removed const constructor from Parser hierarchy, as most parsers are inherently mutable and having some constant makes things inconsistent and more complicated than necessary.

3.1.0

• Fix missing type information on eof and failure parser.
• Optimize character predicates by using lookup tables.
• Improvements to documentation and examples.

3.0.0

• Dart 2.7 compatibility and requirement (extension methods).
• New features:
  • String.toParser() enables creating efficient string and character parsers more easily.
  • Iterable.toChoiceParser() and Iterable.toSequenceParser() enables creating parsers from collections more easily.
  • Parser.callCC(Function) enables capturing a parse continuation more easily.
• Restructure the internal code to be more modular:
  • The Parser class now only defines a few core methods, everything else is an extension method.
  • As long as you continue to import package:petitparser/petitparser.dart none of the changes should affect existing code.
  • Parser implementations have been moved to package:petitparser/parser.dart.
  • Helpers to parse and extract data has been moved to package:petitparser/matcher.dart.
  • The expression builder has been moved to package:petitparser/expression.dart.
  • The grammar builder has been moved topackage:petitparser/definition.dart.
• Breaking changes:
  • Parser is no longer a Pattern, but can be converted to one with toPattern.
  • anyIn has been removed in favor of the already existing and equivalent anyOf parser.
  • pick and permute are defined on Parser<List>, thus they won't be available on the more generic Parser<dynamic> any longer. Prefix the operators with a castList operator.

2.5.0

• Made ParserError a FormatException to follow typical Dart exception style.

2.4.0

• Dart 2.4 compatibility and requirement.
• More tight typing, more strict linter rules.
• Documentation improvements.

2.3.0

• Dart 2.3 compatibility and requirement.
• The expression builder supports building expression with parenthesis.
• Improved the documentation on greedy and lazy parsers.
• Add a prolog parser and interpreter example.
• Numerous optimizations and improvements.

2.2.0

• Dart 2.2 compatibility and requirement.
• Parser implements the Pattern interface.
• Add an example of the expression builder to the tutorial.
• Introduce a fast-parse mode that avoids unnecessary memory allocations during parsing.

2.1.0

• Rename ParserError to ParserException, and make it an Exception.
• Simplify the EndOfInputParser and the ListParser.
• Add a PositionParser that produces the current input position.
• Constructor assertions across the stack.

2.0.0

• Make parsers fully typed, where it makes sense.
  • In most cases this should have no effect on existing code, but sometimes can point out actual bugs.
  • In rare cases, it might be necessary to insert cast<R> or castList<R> at the appropriate places.
• Move examples into their own example package.

1.8.0

• Drop Dart 1.0 compatibility.

1.7.6

• More Dart 2 strong mode fixes.

1.7.5

• Dart 2.0 strong mode compatibility.
• Removed deprecated code, and empty beta package.
• Reformatted all code using dartfmt.

1.7.0

• Dart 2.0 compatibility.
• Fixed numerous analyzer warnings.
• Generate better default error messages.
• Moved example grammars to examples.

1.6.1

• Fix bug with duplicated package name.
• Update documentation.

1.6.0

• Migrate to micro libraries.
• Move Smalltalk, Json, Dart and Lisp grammars to examples.

1.5.5

• Strict typing fixes.

1.5.4

• Fix analyzer warnings.
• Fix package dependencies.

1.5.3

• Dev compiler support.

1.5.2

• Enable strong mode.

1.5.1

• Improve the Dart parser and add more tests.

1.5.0

• Update documentation to match the style guide.
• Change library names.
• Add optimizations and tests for the Dart language grammar.
• Improve comments.
• Better error-handling and primitives for Lisp command line app.
• Fix unicode parsing in the JSON parser.
• Add browser back to dev_dependencies.

1.4.3

• Restore the CompositeParser class.
• Add more references to open source projects using PetitParser.

1.4.2

• Integrate the tutorial into the README.
• Improve formatting of README code blocks.

1.4.1

• Improve test coverage.
• Bump minimum SDK to 1.8.0.
• Remove deprecated CompositeParser class.

1.4.0

• Migrate from unittest to test.
• Setup Travis.
• Allow for const GrammarDefinitions.
• Fix typo in docs.
• Clean up the JSON grammar.
• Format the benchmarks.

1.3.7

• Cleanup dependencies:
  • browser is now >=0.10.0 <0.11.0.
  • unittest is now >=0.11.0 <0.12.0.
  • Remove explicit dependency on matcher package.
• Make the JSON parser twice as fast.
• Reformat tests.

1.3.6

• Add a benchmark for JSON native vs PetitParser.

1.3.5

• Change hasEqualProperties to gracefully handle parsers of inconsistent types.

1.3.4

• Format source code.
• Add missing documentation.

1.3.3

• Performance optimizations