Eclipse Xbase Grammar

Xbase provides predefined expressions for your language as discussed on these pages. This provides XExpression which contains not only '+', '-', '*' and so on but also statements like 'if', while' and so on.

The grammar for org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.Xbase is here.

Grammar Rule Grammar Definition    
XExpression      
XCastedExpression XMemberFeatureCall 'as' JvmTypeReference*    
XIfExpression 'if' '(' XExpression ')' XExpression ('else' XExpression)?    
XSwitchExpression 'switch' (ValidID ':')? XExpression | '(' ValidID ':') XExpression ')'
'{' XCasePart)+ (':' XExpression )?}'
   
XCasePart JvmTypeReference? ('case' XExpression)? ':' XExpression    
XForLoopExpression 'for' '(' JvmFormalParameter ':' XExpression ')' XExpression    
XWhileExpression 'while' '(' XExpression ')' XExpression    
XDoWhileExpression 'do' XExpression 'while' '(' XExpression ')'    
XBlockExpression '{' (XExpressionInsideBlock ';'?)* '}'    
XThrowExpression 'throw' XExpression    
XReturnExpression 'return' XExpression?    
XTryCatchFinallyExpression 'try' XExpression ( XCatchClause+ ('finally' XExpression)? | 'finally' XExpression    
XCatchClause 'catch' '(' FullJvmFormalParameter ')' XExpression    

The above structures are built into Xbase, if you need a grammar with expressions/statements which are different in some way then you may want to consider a grammar generator here (Xgener) . This will produce an Xbase-like grammar which can be customised (but not the other capabilities of Xbase).

Railroad Diagram

Here is a railroad diagram for Xbase to show the grammar.

railroad diagram

org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.Xtype

JvmTypeReference      
XFunctionTypeRef      
JvmParameterizedTypeReference      
JvmArgumentTypeReference      
JvmWildcardTypeReference      
JvmTypeParameter      
QualifiedName      
ValidID      
       
       

www.eclipse.org/xtext/common/JavaVMTypes

       
       
       

 


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