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/* * Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved. * Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that * can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root. */ package org.antlr.v4.runtime; import org.antlr.v4.runtime.misc.Pair; /** The default mechanism for creating tokens. It's used by default in Lexer and * the error handling strategy (to create missing tokens). Notifying the parser * of a new factory means that it notifies its token source and error strategy. */ public interface TokenFactory<Symbol extends Token> { /** This is the method used to create tokens in the lexer and in the * error handling strategy. If text!=null, than the start and stop positions * are wiped to -1 in the text override is set in the CommonToken. */ Symbol create(Pair<TokenSource, CharStream> source, int type, String text, int channel, int start, int stop, int line, int charPositionInLine); /** Generically useful */ Symbol create(int type, String text); }