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Parser Directives Forcing Atomic Assignment (as<T>, as_string[], as_wstring[])
Description

The as<T> class forces the atomic assignment of it's subject's synthesized attribute. Usually, repetitive parsers (such as Kleene, etc) or sequences exposing a vector<A> will assign elements to the container supplied as their synthesized attribute by calling traits::push_back_container repeatedly. In some cases, this may be undesirable. The as<T> class creates a directive that will pass a temporary object of type T to it's subject. If the subject parser passes, the temporary object will be assigned to the directive's supplied attribute with a single call to traits::assign_to. If the subject parser fails, the directive's attribute is not mutated.

[Note] Note

T is required to be a container type. If traits::is_container does not return true for T, a compile-time error will occur.

[Note] Note

The as<T> implicitly causes commit/rollback semantics similar in nature to the hold directive.

[Caution] Caution

The traits::assign_to customization point may end up using traits::push_back_container to assign the temporary object to the supplied attribute by default, depending on the types involved. Use the interface described in Customization of Attribute Handling to manipulate the semantics of this assignment operation.

Header
// forwards to <boost/spirit/home/qi/directive/as.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi_as.hpp>

Also, see Include Structure.

Namespace

Name

boost::spirit::as // alias: boost::spirit::qi::as

boost::spirit::as_string // alias: boost::spirit::qi::as_string

boost::spirit::as_wstring // alias: boost::spirit::qi::as_wstring

Synopsis
template <typename T>
struct as;
Template parameters

Parameter

Description

Default

T

A container type. [none

Model of

UnaryParser

Notation

a

A Parser.

t

A container of type T.

attr

The attribute supplied to the directive.

Expression Semantics

Semantics of an expression is defined only where it differs from, or is not defined in UnaryParser.

Expression

Semantics

as<T>()[a]

Create a temporary object of t of type T, and invoke the subject parser a, supplying t as an attribute. If the subject parser passes, assign t to attr.

as_string[a]

Equivalent to as<std::string>()[a]

as_wstring[a]

Equivalent to as<std::wstring>()[a]

Attributes

See Compound Attribute Notation.

Expression

Attribute

as<T>()[a]

a: A --> as<T>()[a]: T

Complexity

The complexity is defined by the complexity of the subject parser, a, and the complexity of the assignment of the container t to the supplied attribute attr.

Example
[Note] Note

The test harness for the example(s) below is presented in the Basics Examples section.

Some using declarations:

using boost::spirit::utree;
using boost::spirit::utree_type;
using boost::spirit::utf8_symbol_type;
using boost::spirit::qi::as;
using boost::spirit::qi::as_string;
using boost::spirit::qi::char_;

Simple usage of as<T>, as_string and as_wstring:

To properly handle string concatenation with utree, we make use of as_string[]. We also use as<T> to explicitly create a utree symbol node.

utree ut;

typedef as<utf8_symbol_type> as_symbol_type;
as_symbol_type const as_symbol = as_symbol_type();

test_parser_attr("foo", as_string[*char_], ut);
std::cout << ut << std::endl; // will output >"foo"<
BOOST_ASSERT(ut.which() == utree_type::string_type);
ut.clear();

test_parser_attr("foo", as<std::string>()[*char_], ut);
std::cout << ut << std::endl; // will output >"foo"<
BOOST_ASSERT(ut.which() == utree_type::string_type);
ut.clear();

test_parser_attr("foo", as_symbol[*char_], ut);
std::cout << ut << std::endl; // will output >foo<
BOOST_ASSERT(ut.which() == utree_type::symbol_type);
ut.clear();

test_parser_attr("foo", as<utf8_symbol_type>()[*char_], ut);
std::cout << ut << std::endl; // will output >foo<
BOOST_ASSERT(ut.which() == utree_type::symbol_type);


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