apg

##JavaScript APG

Version: 2.0

Description:

APG is an acronym for "ABNF Parser Generator". Version 2.0 is a complete re-write of version 1.0 (apg-js)with the following objectives in mind:

• Updating its features to the full apg-6.3 and apg-java complement.
• Creating a local version of the parser generator as well as the parsing library (version 1.0 was library only).
• Developing it in the node.js framework.

Its features include:

• generates language parsers and translators from a superset of the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF RFC5234) grammar syntax
• accepts valid ABNF grammars
• use of callback functions keeps the parser's action code separate from the grammar
• accepts AND & NOT syntactic predicate operators for conditional parsing based on specified, look-ahead phrases
• accepts User-Defined Terminals (UDTs) which provide user-written, non-Context-Free phrase recognition operators
• user-written callback functions provide complete monitoring and flow control of the parser
• optional generation of an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
• translation of the AST with user-written callback functions
• XML formatting of the AST
• extensive tracing facilities
• statistics gathering for a full picture of parse tree node coverage
• extensive attribute generation for an overview of the grammar's characteristics
• runs as a node.js, desktop cli function

Installation:
Requires node.js and npm

clone https://github.com/ldthomas/apg-js2.git apg
cd apg
npm install -g ./
apg -v

or just

npm install -g apg
apg -v

You should see something like:

JavaScript APG 2.0, Copyright (C) 2105 Lowell D. Thomas, all rights reserved

Note: If there is a name conflict (for example, Automated Password Generator) there are a couple of options for resolving the conflict.

• Make sure that the npm prefix (npm prefix -g) is left-most in the $PATH variable and clear the cache with
  hash -r
• If the npm prefix is, say, /my/npm/prefix, create an alias
  alias apg='/my/npm/prefix/bin/apg'
• You probably know other ways to do it better to your suiting.

Examples:
See apg-js2-examples for examples of running JavaScript APG 2.0 and the parsers it generates.

Documentation:
To be done.
For now, run apg -h for a list of options and you can look at the code in the examples.

Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 Lowell D. Thomas, all rights reserved

License:
Unlike all previous releases of APG, JavaSript APG, Version 2.0 is released with the more permissive BSD-3-Clause license.