boost spirit and boost any - unexpected result - c++

I have the following code:
#include <boost/any.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
template <typename Iterator>
struct parser : boost::spirit::qi::grammar<Iterator, boost::any, boost::spirit::qi::ascii::space_type>
{
parser() : parser::base_type(start)
{
start %= boost::spirit::qi::int_;
}
boost::spirit::qi::rule<Iterator, boost::any, boost::spirit::qi::ascii::space_type> start;
};
int main()
{
const std::string input_data("1");
boost::any var;
auto itr = input_data.begin();
auto end = input_data.end();
parser<decltype(itr)> g;
bool res = boost::spirit::qi::phrase_parse(itr, end, g, boost::spirit::ascii::space, var);
if (res && itr == end)
{
std::cout << "Parsing succeeded \n";
try
{
std::cout << boost::any_cast<int>(var) << '\n';
}
catch (const boost::bad_any_cast& ex)
{
std::cerr << ex.what() << '\n';
}
}
else
{
std::cout << "Parsing failed \n";
}
}
Output
Parsing succeeded
boost::bad_any_cast: failed conversion using boost::any_cast
I think that cast should work fine in such case. Am i wrong? How can I fix it?

Initialize your any!
boost::any var = 0;
Spirit binds the attribute value by reference, so it will cast to int& before invoking the qi::int_ parser.
On a side note, using boost::any with Spirit seems like misguided plan. I can't see why you'd diverge from statically known types and e.g. Variant. But I'll leave that up to you :)
P.S. Oh, and you forgot some more parentheses like here :). See it Live On Coliru now

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Boost Spirit X3: skip parser that would do nothing

I'm getting myself familiarized with boost spirit v3. The question I want to ask is how to state the fact that you don't want to use skip parser in any way.
Consider a simple example of parsing comma-separated sequence of integers:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <boost/spirit/home/x3.hpp>
int main()
{
using namespace boost::spirit::x3;
const std::string input{"2,4,5"};
const auto parser = int_ % ',';
std::vector<int> numbers;
auto start = input.cbegin();
auto r = phrase_parse(start, input.end(), parser, space, numbers);
if(r && start == input.cend())
{
// success
for(const auto &item: numbers)
std::cout << item << std::endl;
return 0;
}
std::cerr << "Input was not parsed successfully" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
This works totally fine. However, I would like to forbid having spaces in between (i.e. "2, 4,5" should not be parsed well).
I tried using eps as a skip parser in phrase_parse, but as you can guess, the program ended up in the infinite loop because eps matches to an empty string.
Solution I found is to use no_skip directive (https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/spirit/doc/html/spirit/qi/reference/directive/no_skip.html). So the parser now becomes:
const auto parser = no_skip[int_ % ','];
This works fine, but I don't find it to be an elegant solution (especially providing "space" parser in phrase_parse when I want no whitespace skips). Are there no skip parsers that would simply do nothing? Am I missing something?
Thanks for Your time. Looking forward to any replies.
You can use either no_skip[] or lexeme[]. They're almost identical, except for pre-skip (Boost Spirit lexeme vs no_skip).
Are there no skip parsers that would simply do nothing? Am I missing something?
A wild guess, but you might be missing the parse API that doesn't accept a skipper in the first place
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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <boost/spirit/home/x3.hpp>
namespace x3 = boost::spirit::x3;
int main() {
std::string const input{ "2,4,5" };
auto f = begin(input), l = end(input);
const auto parser = x3::int_ % ',';
std::vector<int> numbers;
auto r = parse(f, l, parser, numbers);
if (r) {
// success
for (const auto& item : numbers)
std::cout << item << std::endl;
} else {
std::cerr << "Input was not parsed successfully" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
if (f!=l) {
std::cout << "Remaining input " << std::quoted(std::string(f,l)) << "\n";
return 2;
}
}
Prints
2
4
5

Boost.Spirit X3 parser "no type named type in(...)"

I was toying with Boost.Spirit X3 calculator example when I encountered an error I couldn't get my head around.
I minimized the program to reduce complexity still throwing the same error.
Say I want to parse an input as a list of statements (strings) followed by a delimiter (';').
This is my structure:
namespace client { namespace ast
{
struct program
{
std::list<std::string> stmts;
};
}}
BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT(client::ast::program,
(std::list<std::string>, stmts)
)
The grammar is as follows:
namespace client
{
namespace grammar
{
x3::rule<class program, ast::program> const program("program");
auto const program_def =
*((*char_) > ';')
;
BOOST_SPIRIT_DEFINE(
program
);
auto calculator = program;
}
using grammar::calculator;
}
Invoked
int
main()
{
std::cout <<"///////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
std::cout << "Expression parser...\n\n";
std::cout << //////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
std::cout << "Type an expression...or [q or Q] to quit\n\n";
typedef std::string::const_iterator iterator_type;
typedef client::ast::program ast_program;
std::string str;
while (std::getline(std::cin, str))
{
if (str.empty() || str[0] == 'q' || str[0] == 'Q')
break;
auto& calc = client::calculator; // Our grammar
ast_program program; // Our program (AST)
iterator_type iter = str.begin();
iterator_type end = str.end();
boost::spirit::x3::ascii::space_type space;
bool r = phrase_parse(iter, end, calc, space, program);
if (r && iter == end)
{
std::cout << "-------------------------\n";
std::cout << "Parsing succeeded\n";
std::cout<< '\n';
std::cout << "-------------------------\n";
}
else
{
std::cout << "-------------------------\n";
std::cout << "Parsing failed\n";
std::cout << "-------------------------\n";
}
}
std::cout << "Bye... :-) \n\n";
return 0;
}
Error I get is
/opt/boost_1_66_0/boost/spirit/home/x3/support/traits/container_traits.hpp: In instantiation of ‘struct boost::spirit::x3::traits::container_value<client::ast::program, void>’:
.
.
.
/opt/boost_1_66_0/boost/spirit/home/x3/support/traits/container_traits.hpp:76:12: error: no type named ‘value_type’ in ‘struct client::ast::program’
struct container_value
/opt/boost_1_66_0/boost/spirit/home/x3/operator/detail/sequence.hpp:497:72: error: no type named ‘type’ in ‘struct boost::spirit::x3::traits::container_value<client::ast::program, void>’
, typename traits::is_substitute<attribute_type, value_type>::type());
^~~~~~
Things I tried:
Following Getting boost::spirit::qi to use stl containers
Even though it uses Qi I nonetheless tried:
namespace boost{namespace spirit{ namespace traits{
template<>
struct container_value<client::ast::program>
//also with struct container<client::ast::program, void>
{
typedef std::list<std::string> type;
};
}}}
You see I'm kinda in the dark, so expectably to no avail.
parser2.cpp:41:8: error: ‘container_value’ is not a class template
struct container_value<client::ast::program>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the same SO question I author says "There is one known limitation though, when you try to use a struct that has a single element that is also a container compilation fails unless you add qi::eps >> ... to your rule."
I did try adding a dummy eps also without success.
Please, help me decipher what that error means.
Yup. This looks like another limitation with automatic propagation of attributes when single-element sequences are involved.
I'd probably bite the bullet and change the rule definition from what it is (and what you'd expect to work) to:
x3::rule<class program_, std::vector<std::string> >
That removes the root of the confusion.
Other notes:
you had char_ which also eats ';' so the grammar would never succeed because no ';' would follow a "statement".
your statements aren't lexeme, so whitespace is discarded (is this what you meant? See Boost spirit skipper issues)
your statement could be empty, which meant parsing would ALWAYS fail at the end of input (where it would always read an empty state, and then discover that the expected ';' was missing). Fix it by requiring at least 1 character before accepting a statement.
With some simplifications/style changes:
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#include <boost/fusion/adapted.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/home/x3.hpp>
#include <list>
namespace x3 = boost::spirit::x3;
namespace ast {
using statement = std::string;
struct program {
std::list<statement> stmts;
};
}
BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT(ast::program, stmts)
namespace grammar {
auto statement
= x3::rule<class statement_, ast::statement> {"statement"}
= +~x3::char_(';');
auto program
= x3::rule<class program_, std::list<ast::statement> > {"program"}
= *(statement >> ';');
}
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
int main() {
std::cout << "Type an expression...or [q or Q] to quit\n\n";
using It = std::string::const_iterator;
for (std::string str; std::getline(std::cin, str);) {
if (str.empty() || str[0] == 'q' || str[0] == 'Q')
break;
auto &parser = grammar::program;
ast::program program; // Our program (AST)
It iter = str.begin(), end = str.end();
if (phrase_parse(iter, end, parser, x3::space, program)) {
std::cout << "Parsing succeeded\n";
for (auto& s : program.stmts) {
std::cout << "Statement: " << std::quoted(s, '\'') << "\n";
}
}
else
std::cout << "Parsing failed\n";
if (iter != end)
std::cout << "Remaining unparsed: " << std::quoted(std::string(iter, end), '\'') << "\n";
}
}
Which for input "a;b;c;d;" prints:
Parsing succeeded
Statement: 'a'
Statement: 'b'
Statement: 'c'
Statement: 'd'

boost spirit qi parser failed in release and pass in debug

#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
using namespace boost::spirit;
int main()
{
std::string s;
std::getline(std::cin, s);
auto specialtxt = *(qi::char_('-', '.', '_'));
auto txt = no_skip[*(qi::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.\\:$\'-"))];
auto anytxt = *(qi::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.\\:${}[]+/()-"));
qi::rule <std::string::iterator, void(),ascii::space_type> rule2 = txt ('=') >> ('[') >> (']');
auto begin = s.begin();
auto end = s.end();
if (qi::phrase_parse(begin, end, rule2, ascii::space))
{
std::cout << "MATCH" << std::endl;
}
else
{
std::cout << "NO MATCH" << std::endl;
}
}
this code works fine in debug mode
parser fails in release mode
rule is to just parse text=[]; any thing else than this should fail it works fine in debug mode but not in release mode it shows result no match for any string.
if i enter string like
abc=[];
this passes in debug as expected but fails in release
You can't use auto with Spirit v2:
Assigning parsers to auto variables
You have Undefined Behaviour
DEMO
I tried to make (more) sense of the rest of the code. There were various instances that would never work:
txt('=') is an invalid Qi expression. I assumed you wanted txt >> ('=') instead
qi::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.\\:$\\-{}[]+/()") doesn't do what you think because $-{ is actually the character "range" \x24-\x7b... Escape the - (or put it at the very end/start of the set like in the other char_ call).
qi::char_('-','.','_') can't work. Did you mean qi::char_("-._")?
specialtxt and anytxt were unused...
prefer const_iterator
prefer namespace aliases above using namespace to prevent hard-to-detect errors
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#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <iostream>
namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
int main() {
std::string const s = "abc=[];";
auto specialtxt = qi::copy(*(qi::char_("-._")));
auto anytxt = qi::copy(*(qi::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.\\:$\\-{}[]+/()")));
(void) specialtxt;
(void) anytxt;
auto txt = qi::copy(qi::no_skip[*(qi::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.\\:$\'-"))]);
qi::rule<std::string::const_iterator, qi::space_type> rule2 = txt >> '=' >> '[' >> ']';
auto begin = s.begin();
auto end = s.end();
if (qi::phrase_parse(begin, end, rule2, qi::space)) {
std::cout << "MATCH" << std::endl;
} else {
std::cout << "NO MATCH" << std::endl;
}
if (begin != end) {
std::cout << "Trailing unparsed: '" << std::string(begin, end) << "'\n";
}
}
Printing
MATCH
Trailing unparsed: ';'

How can I extract std::string object via boost spirit

I have the following code:
#include <boost/fusion/include/adapt_struct.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/include/io.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
struct function
{
std::string ret_type;
std::string name;
};
BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT(
::function,
(std::string, ret_type)
(std::string, name)
)
template <typename Iterator>
struct function_parser : boost::spirit::qi::grammar<Iterator, function(), boost::spirit::qi::ascii::space_type>
{
function_parser() : function_parser::base_type(start)
{
using boost::spirit::qi::ascii::char_;
using boost::spirit::qi::int_;
start %= +char_ >> +char_;
}
boost::spirit::qi::rule<Iterator, function(), boost::spirit::qi::ascii::space_type> start;
};
int main()
{
std::string input_data("void foo");
function fn;
auto itr = input_data.begin();
auto end = input_data.end();
function_parser<decltype(itr)> g;
bool res = boost::spirit::qi::phrase_parse(itr, end, g, boost::spirit::ascii::space, fn);
if (res && itr == end)
{
std::cout << boost::fusion::tuple_open('[');
std::cout << boost::fusion::tuple_close(']');
std::cout << boost::fusion::tuple_delimiter(", ");
std::cout << "Parsing succeeded\n";
std::cout << "got: " << boost::fusion::as_vector(fn) << std::endl;
}
else
{
std::cout << "Parsing failed \n";
}
}
Output
Parsing failed
What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it?
+char_
eats all input! Now, the next
+char_
requires at least a single character, which isn't there (the first kleen plus ate it) so the parse fails.
I suggest instead:
using namespace boost::spirit::qi;
start = lexeme[+graph] >> lexeme[+graph];
The documentation should be able to tell you what that does (I hope. No time to elaborate)

How to throw an expectation_failure from a function in Boost Spirit?

In Boost::Spirit, how can I trigger an expectation_failure from a function bound with Boost::Bind?
Background: I parse a large file that contains complex entries. When an entry is inconsistent with a previous entry I want to fail and throw an expectation_failure (containing proper parse position information). When I parse an entry I bind a function that decides if the entry is inconsistent with something seen before.
I made up a little toy example that shows the point. Here I simply want to throw an expectation_failure when the int is not divisible by 10:
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/classic_position_iterator.hpp>
namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
namespace classic = boost::spirit::classic;
void checkNum(int const& i) {
if (i % 10 != 0) // >> How to throw proper expectation_failure? <<
std::cerr << "ERROR: Number check failed" << std::endl;
}
template <typename Iterator, typename Skipper>
struct MyGrammar : qi::grammar<Iterator, int(), Skipper> {
MyGrammar() : MyGrammar::base_type(start) {
start %= qi::eps > qi::int_[boost::bind(&checkNum, _1)];
}
qi::rule<Iterator, int(), Skipper> start;
};
template<class PosIter>
std::string errorMsg(PosIter const& iter) {
const classic::file_position_base<std::string>& pos = iter.get_position();
std::stringstream msg;
msg << "parse error at file " << pos.file
<< " line " << pos.line << " column " << pos.column << std::endl
<< "'" << iter.get_currentline() << "'" << std::endl
<< std::setw(pos.column) << " " << "^- here";
return msg.str();
}
int main() {
std::string in = "11";
typedef std::string::const_iterator Iter;
typedef classic::position_iterator2<Iter> PosIter;
MyGrammar<PosIter, qi::space_type> grm;
int i;
PosIter it(in.begin(), in.end(), "<string>");
PosIter end;
try {
qi::phrase_parse(it, end, grm, qi::space, i);
if (it != end)
throw std::runtime_error(errorMsg(it));
} catch(const qi::expectation_failure<PosIter>& e) {
throw std::runtime_error(errorMsg(e.first));
}
return 0;
}
Throwing an expectation_failure would mean that I get an error message like this on an int that is not divisible by 10:
parse error at file <string> line 1 column 2
'11'
^- here
You can use the _pass placeholder in phoenix to enforce a parse fail. Something like this should work.
bool myfunc(int i) {return i%10 == 0;}
...
_int [ _pass = phoenix::bind(myfunc,_1)]
Years late but anyway:
If you absolutely want to throw an exception and want the on_error to catch it, you have to throw the expectation_exception from the qi namespace because the error handler on_error does catch nothing else.
This might apply to a semantic action or a custom parser implementation.
Would look like:
boost::throw_exception(Exception(first, last, component.what(context)));
where Exception is a qi::expactation_exception and nothing else.
If you do not have a component at hand like in a semantic action you must provide your own qi::info object instead of component.what(..).
You can throw from everywhere inside a context guarded by on_error.