Package ch.usi.si.seart.treesitter.printer

Interface TreePrinter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DotGraphPrinter, SymbolicExpressionPrinter, SyntaxTreePrinter, XMLPrinter

public interface TreePrinter

Contract for classes that can generate string representations of Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). Implementations of this interface are responsible for traversing trees and producing a specific representation.

Since:

1.2.0

Author:

Ozren Dabić

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
File	export()	Generates a file containing the string representation of an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).
String	print()	Generates a string representation of an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).

Method Detail

print

String print()

Generates a string representation of an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).

Returns:

A string representation of the tree

export

File export()
     throws IOException

Generates a file containing the string representation of an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). This method should be preferred over print() when dealing with extremely wide, or deep trees.

Returns:

A file containing the string representation of the tree

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs