gate.yam.translate
Class PrettyTranslator

java.lang.Object
  gate.yam.translate.AbstractTranslator
      gate.yam.translate.PrettyTranslator

All Implemented Interfaces:

TranslationConstants

public class PrettyTranslator
extends AbstractTranslator

This class is a pretty-printer for YAM documents. It takes a parse tree as input, munges the whitespace in the Token images, and prints it to the supplied writer.

Author:

Hamish Cunningham

Field Summary

static boolean

pleaseLeakLotsOfMemory For debugging, set this true and the GATE docs that the translator creates will not be deleted.

Fields inherited from class gate.yam.translate.AbstractTranslator

translatorType

Fields inherited from interface gate.yam.translate.TranslationConstants

CONSTANTEND, CONSTANTNAME, CONSTANTSTART

Constructor Summary

PrettyTranslator()
Construction.

Method Summary

String[][]	getConstantsTable() Array mapping node type name to start/end strings.
String	getPreamblePath() Get the path to the preamble resource.
Object[][]	getPredicatesTable() Array mapping predicate type name to attributes.
void	processURLs(SimpleNode node) Process URLs and Anchors.
Writer	translate() Translation.

Methods inherited from class gate.yam.translate.AbstractTranslator

addToFooter, getConstantEnd, getConstantStart, makeContents, makePreamble, printEndNotes, printTree, printTree, printTree, setIOHandler, setParseTree, setWriter

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

pleaseLeakLotsOfMemory

public static boolean pleaseLeakLotsOfMemory

For debugging, set this true and the GATE docs that the translator creates will not be deleted. A fun trick to play on your colleagues is to set this true and then deploy into your favourite web container and sit back and wait for the screams from the systems admin team.

Constructor Detail

PrettyTranslator

public PrettyTranslator()

Construction.

Method Detail

getPreamblePath

public String getPreamblePath()

Get the path to the preamble resource. Unused.

getConstantsTable

public String[][] getConstantsTable()

Array mapping node type name to start/end strings. Unused.

getPredicatesTable

public Object[][] getPredicatesTable()

Array mapping predicate type name to attributes. Unused.

translate

public Writer translate()
                 throws gate.util.GateException

Translation. Results are written to the Writer, which is also returned.

Overrides:

translate in class AbstractTranslator

Throws:

gate.util.GateException

processURLs

public void processURLs(SimpleNode node)
                 throws gate.util.GateException

Process URLs and Anchors.

Specified by:

processURLs in class AbstractTranslator

Throws:

gate.util.GateException