JavaCC Compiler Plugin for Gradle

Provides the ability to use JavaCC via Gradle. If the 'java' plugin is also applied, JavaCompile tasks will depend upon the compileJavacc task.

Installation

Simply grab the plugin from Maven Central:

To use the Gradle Plugins DSL, add the following lines to your build.gradle script:

plugins {
  id "org.javacc.javacc" version "3.0.2"
}

Refer to the Gradle Plugins portal for additional details about the installation procedure, including syntax for the Kotlin DSL and the legacy buildscript block.

Building from source

To build, simply run the following command in the directory where you checked out the plugin source:

./gradlew clean build

NOTE: Currently, the plugin must be built with Java 8. The plugin itself will build successfully with Java 9+, but a number of the tests will fail due to incompatibility with the Java 9+ module system.

Usage

Place your JavaCC code into src/main/javacc. The generated Java code will be put under ./build/generated/javacc and will be compiled as part of the Java compile.

Place your JJTree code into src/main/jjtree The generated Java code will be put under ./build/generated/jjtree and will be compiled as part of the JavaCC compile.

You can configure the input/output directory by configuring the compileJavacc task:

compileJavacc {
    inputDirectory = file('src/main/javacc')
    outputDirectory = file(project.buildDir.absolutePath + '/generated/javacc')
}

Due to the nature of the JavaCC compiler and its use of the OUTPUT_DIRECTORY parameter, you should prefer using inputDirectory over source provided by SourceTask. To use include/exclude filters, please refer to the SourceTask documentation. By default, only *.jj files are included.

You can configure commandline arguments passed to JavaCC by specifying javaccArguments map in compileJavacc:

compileJavacc {
    arguments = [grammar_encoding: 'UTF-8', static: 'false']
}

Input/output directories and arguments can be configured as well for JJTree:

compileJjtree {
    inputDirectory = file('src/main/jjtree')
    outputDirectory = file(project.buildDir.absolutePath + '/generated/jjtree')
    arguments = [grammar_encoding: 'UTF-8', static: 'false']
}

Multiple source sets support

If your project uses multiple source sets, JavaCC output directory will by default become a dependency for all of them. If you want to make it dependency only for selected source sets, you can do so with global plugin configuration

javacc {
    dependentSourceSets = [sourceSets.main]
}

Eclipse

If you are using Eclipse and would like your gradle project to compile nicely in eclipse and have the generated code in the build path, you can simply add the generated path to the main sourceSet and add a dependency on compileJavacc to eclipseClasspath.

sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDir compileJavacc.outputDirectory
        }
    }
}

eclipseClasspath.dependsOn("compileJavacc")

Dependency on another version of JavaCC

If for some reason you need to depend on a different version of JavaCC than the plugin's default, you can use one of the following scripts.

For JavaCC up to 7.x:

dependencies {
    javacc 'net.java.dev.javacc:javacc:[version]'
}

For JavaCC 8.x and later:

dependencies {
    javacc 'org.javacc.generator:java:[version]'
}

Custom AST classes

To use your own custom AST classes, simply place them in your JavaCC input directory besides your regular .jj files. Make sure to include .java files:

compileJavacc {
    include '**/*.java'
}

If you prefer, you can simply have them sit in your regular java source set. Of course, a custom AST class needs to be in the same package as the original AST class it overrides.

JJDoc

The jjdoc task looks for JavaCC parser specifications in the default src/main/javacc directory and generates documentation into the default ./build/generated/jjdoc directory. Of course, you can provide arguments and configure the input/output directories as with the compileJavacc and compileJjtree tasks:

jjdoc {
    inputDirectory = file('src/main/javacc')
    outputDirectory = file(project.buildDir.absolutePath + '/generated/jjdoc')
    arguments = [text: 'true']
}

Compatibility

This plugin requires Java 8+.

It has been tested with Gradle 6.4+. Please let us know if you have had success with other versions of Gradle.

Signature

The artifacts for this plugin are signed using the PGP key for [email protected].

Releasing

The following command can be used to release the project, upload to Maven Central: ./gradlew -PreleaseVersion=[version] -PnextVersion=[snapshot version] -PscmUrl=https://github.com/javacc/javaccPlugin.git -PossrhUsername=[username] -PossrhPassword=[password] -PgpgPassphrase=[passphrase] clean :release:release

Changelog

For version 3.0 and later see GitHub Releases.

2.4.0

• Allow configuration of the JavaCC version to use (Issue #29)
• Improve incremental build support by adding @InputDirectory to the tasks input property
• Build with Gradle 3.2.1
• Upgraded dependencies to latest
• Run acceptance tests with Gradle TestKit

2.3.1

• Fix handling of generated files when rerunning tasks (Issue #20)

2.3.0

• Added support for JJDoc

2.2.2

• Handle custom AST classes correctly in the compileJjtree task (Issue #16)

2.2.1

• Fixed support for custom AST classes defined in the Java sourcesets (Issue #15)

2.2.0

• Added support for custom AST classes (Issue #13)
• Plugin now builds with Gradle 2.5
• Upgraded plugin dependencies for bintray and coveralls
• Upgraded dependencies to latest

2.1.0

• Added support for JJTree: compileJjtree task is now added by default and compileJavacc depends on it (Issue #4, Pull Request #9)

2.0.4

• Plugin now builds with Gradle 2.2.1
• Now publishes to Bintray using the latest version of com.jfrog.bintray plugin and syncs to Maven Central via this plugin

2.0.3

• CompileJavaccTask is now a SourceTask and supports include/exclude filters
• Can now configure the input/output directory

2.0.2

• Improved the build system
• Added acceptance tests
• Support the gradle wrapper (Issue #10)
• Support passing optional arguments to Javacc (Issue #11)
• Support multiproject builds (Issue #3)

2.0.1

Fixed the gradle-plugin attribute for the Bintray package version.

2.0.0

• Migrated to Gradle 2.0
• Plugin id changed to 'ca.coglinc.javacc'
• Plugin is now available via the Gradle Plugins repository

1.0.1

Updated JavaCC to 6.1.2.

1.0.0

Initial version with limited features. Simply generates JavaCC files to Java from a non-configurable location into a non-configurable location.