Merged functionality of p.Expects(string) and p.UnexpectedInput().

It is now simply p.UnexpectedInput(string). This makes the naming
of unexpected input not as magical, but explicit (which is a GoodThing).
With one of the earlier incarnations of parsekit it did make sense,
but it went in a way in which explicit is more idiomatic for the package.

assertions_test.go

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ func AssertTokenHandlers(t *testing.T, testSet []TokenHandlerT) {
 }
 
 func AssertTokenHandler(t *testing.T, test TokenHandlerT) {
-	result, err := NewTokenizer(test.TokenHandler, "a match").Execute(test.Input)
+	result, err := NewTokenizer(test.TokenHandler).Execute(test.Input)
 	if test.MustMatch {
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("Test %q failed with error: %s", test.Input, err)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func AssertTokenMakers(t *testing.T, testSet []TokenMakerT) {
 }
 
 func AssertTokenMaker(t *testing.T, test TokenMakerT) {
-	result, err := NewTokenizer(test.TokenHandler, "a match").Execute(test.Input)
+	result, err := NewTokenizer(test.TokenHandler).Execute(test.Input)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("Test %q failed with error: %s", test.Input, err)
 	} else {

examples/example_basiccalculator1_test.go

@@ -75,10 +75,11 @@ var bareInteger = parsekit.C.Seq(dropWhitespace, parsekit.A.Integer, dropWhitesp
 var int64Token = parsekit.T.Int64(nil, bareInteger)
 
 func (c *simpleCalculator) number(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
-	p.Expects("integer number")
 	if p.On(int64Token).Accept() {
 		c.Result += c.op * p.Result().Value(0).(int64)
 		p.Handle(c.operatorOrEndOfFile)
+	} else {
+		p.UnexpectedInput("integer number")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -92,8 +93,7 @@ func (c *simpleCalculator) operatorOrEndOfFile(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 		c.op = -1
 		p.Handle(c.number)
 	case !p.On(A.EndOfFile).Stay():
-		p.Expects("operator, '+' or '-'")
+		p.UnexpectedInput("operator, '+' or '-'")
-		p.UnexpectedInput()
 	default:
 		p.ExpectEndOfFile()
 	}

examples/example_basiccalculator2_test.go

@@ -140,12 +140,11 @@ func (c *calculator) factor(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 			return
 		}
 		if !p.On(A.RightParen).Skip() {
-			p.Expects("')'")
+			p.UnexpectedInput("')'")
-			p.UnexpectedInput()
 			return
 		}
 	default:
-		p.UnexpectedInput()
+		p.UnexpectedInput("factor or (expression)")
 		return
 	}
 	p.On(A.Whitespace).Skip()

examples/example_dutchpostcode_test.go

@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@ func createPostcodeTokenizer() *parsekit.Tokenizer {
 
 	// Create a Tokenizer that wraps the 'postcode' TokenHandler and allows
 	// us to match some input against that handler.
-	return parsekit.NewTokenizer(postcode, "a Dutch postcode")
+	return parsekit.NewTokenizer(postcode)
 }

examples/example_helloManyStateParser_test.go

@@ -80,51 +80,56 @@ func (h *helloparser1) Parse(input string) (string, *parsekit.Error) {
 
 func (h *helloparser1) start(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 	a := parsekit.A
-	p.Expects("hello")
 	if p.On(a.StrNoCase("hello")).Skip() {
 		p.Handle(h.comma)
+	} else {
+		p.UnexpectedInput("hello")
 	}
 }
 
 func (h *helloparser1) comma(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 	a := parsekit.A
-	p.Expects("comma")
 	switch {
 	case p.On(a.Whitespace).Skip():
 		p.Handle(h.comma)
 	case p.On(a.Comma).Skip():
 		p.Handle(h.startName)
+	default:
+		p.UnexpectedInput("comma")
 	}
 }
 
 func (h *helloparser1) startName(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 	c, a := parsekit.C, parsekit.A
-	p.Expects("name")
 	switch {
 	case p.On(a.Whitespace).Skip():
 		p.Handle(h.startName)
 	case p.On(c.Not(a.Excl)).Stay():
 		p.Handle(h.name)
+	default:
+		p.UnexpectedInput("name")
 	}
 }
 
 func (h *helloparser1) name(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
-	c, a := parsekit.C, parsekit.A
+	a := parsekit.A
-	p.Expects("name")
 	switch {
-	case p.On(c.Not(a.Excl)).Accept():
+	case p.On(a.Excl).Skip():
+		p.Handle(h.exclamation)
+	case p.On(a.AnyRune).Accept():
 		h.greetee += p.Result().String()
 		p.Handle(h.name)
 	default:
-		p.Handle(h.exclamation)
+		p.UnexpectedInput("name")
 	}
 }
 
 func (h *helloparser1) exclamation(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 	a := parsekit.A
-	p.Expects("exclamation")
 	if p.On(a.Excl).Accept() {
 		p.Handle(h.end)
+	} else {
+		p.UnexpectedInput("exclamation")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -134,8 +139,7 @@ func (h *helloparser1) exclamation(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 func (h *helloparser1) end(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
 	var a = parsekit.A
 	if !p.On(a.EndOfFile).Stay() {
-		p.Expects("end of greeting")
+		p.UnexpectedInput("end of greeting")
-		p.UnexpectedInput()
 		return
 	}
 

examples/example_helloParserCombinator_test.go

@@ -61,5 +61,5 @@ func createHelloTokenizer() *parsekit.Tokenizer {
 
 	// Create a Tokenizer that wraps the 'greeting' TokenHandler and allows
 	// us to match some input against that handler.
-	return parsekit.NewTokenizer(greeting, "a friendly greeting")
+	return parsekit.NewTokenizer(greeting)
 }

parseapi.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 type ParseAPI struct {
 	tokenAPI  *TokenAPI           // the input reader
 	loopCheck map[string]bool     // used for parser loop detection
-	expecting string              // a description of what the current state expects to find (see Expects())
 	result    *TokenHandlerResult // Last TokenHandler result as produced by On(...).Accept()
 	err       *Error              // error during parsing, retrieved by Error(), further ParseAPI calls are ignored
 	stopped   bool                // a boolean set to true by Stop(), further ParseAPI calls are ignored
@@ -145,8 +144,9 @@ func (a *ParseAPIOnAction) Accept() bool {
 // When no match was found, then no action is taken and false is returned.
 func (a *ParseAPIOnAction) Skip() bool {
 	if a.ok {
-		a.tokenAPI.syncCursor(a.tokenAPI.root)
+		a.parseAPI.result = nil
 		a.tokenAPI.clearResults()
+		a.tokenAPI.syncCursorTo(a.tokenAPI.root)
 		a.tokenAPI.detachChilds()
 		a.flushReader()
 	}
@@ -208,19 +208,6 @@ func (p *ParseAPI) panicWhenParseHandlerNil(parseHandler ParseHandler) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Expects is used to let a ParseHandler function describe what input it is
-// expecting. This expectation is used in error messages to provide some
-// context to them.
-//
-// When defining an expectation inside a ParseHandler, you do not need to
-// handle unexpected input yourself. When the end of the parser is reached
-// without stopping it using ParseAPI.Stop() or ParseAPI.ExpectEndOfFile(),
-// an automatic error will be emitted using ParseAPI.UnexpectedInput().
-func (p *ParseAPI) Expects(description string) {
-	p.panicWhenStoppedOrInError()
-	p.expecting = description
-}
-
 // Stop is used by the parser impementation to tell the ParseAPI that it has
 // completed the parsing process successfully.
 //
@@ -259,38 +246,33 @@ func (p *ParseAPI) ExpectEndOfFile() {
 	if p.On(A.EndOfFile).Stay() {
 		p.Stop()
 	} else {
-		p.Expects("end of file")
+		p.UnexpectedInput("end of file")
-		p.UnexpectedInput()
 	}
 }
 
 // UnexpectedInput is used to set an error that tells the user that some
 // unexpected input was encountered.
 //
-// It can automatically produce an error message for a couple of situations:
+// It automatically produces an error message for a couple of situations:
 // 1) the input simply didn't match the expectation
 // 2) the end of the input was reached
 // 3) there was an error while reading the input.
-//
+func (p *ParseAPI) UnexpectedInput(expected string) {
-// The parser implementation can provide some feedback for this error by
-// calling ParseAPI.Expects() to set the expectation. When set, the
-// expectation is included in the error message.
-func (p *ParseAPI) UnexpectedInput() {
 	p.panicWhenStoppedOrInError()
 	_, err := p.tokenAPI.NextRune()
 	switch {
 	case err == nil:
-		p.Error("unexpected input%s", fmtExpects(p))
+		p.Error("unexpected input%s", fmtExpects(expected))
 	case err == io.EOF:
-		p.Error("unexpected end of file%s", fmtExpects(p))
+		p.Error("unexpected end of file%s", fmtExpects(expected))
 	default:
-		p.Error("unexpected error '%s'%s", err, fmtExpects(p))
+		p.Error("unexpected error '%s'%s", err, fmtExpects(expected))
 	}
 }
 
-func fmtExpects(p *ParseAPI) string {
+func fmtExpects(expected string) string {
-	if p.expecting == "" {
+	if expected == "" {
 		return ""
 	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf(" (expected %s)", p.expecting)
+	return fmt.Sprintf(" (expected %s)", expected)
 }

parser.go

@@ -43,12 +43,9 @@ func (p *Parser) Execute(input string) *Error {
 	if api.Handle(p.startHandler) {
 		// Handle returned true, indicating that parsing could still continue.
 		// There was no error and that the parsing has not actively been Stop()-ed.
-		// Let's try to make the best of it.
+		// Let's assume that we actually reached the end of the parsing successfully
-		if api.expecting != "" {
+		// and try to make the best of it.
-			api.UnexpectedInput()
+		api.ExpectEndOfFile()
-		} else {
-			api.ExpectEndOfFile()
-		}
 	}
 	return api.err
 }

parser_test.go

@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ func ExampleParser_usingTokens() {
 
 func ExampleParseAPI_UnexpectedInput() {
 	parser := parsekit.NewParser(func(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
-		p.Expects("a thing")
+		p.UnexpectedInput("a thing")
-		p.UnexpectedInput()
 	})
 	err := parser.Execute("Whatever, this parser will never be happy...")
 	fmt.Println(err.Full())

tokenapi.go

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ func (i *TokenAPI) Fork() *TokenAPI {
 		parent: i,
 	}
 	child.result = newTokenHandlerResult()
-	i.syncCursor(child)
+	i.syncCursorTo(child)
 	i.child = child
 	return child
 }
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ func (i *TokenAPI) Merge() {
 		callerPanic(1, "parsekit.TokenAPI.Merge(): Merge() called at {caller} on a non-forked TokenAPI")
 	}
 	i.addResultsToParent()
-	i.syncCursor(i.parent)
+	i.syncCursorTo(i.parent)
 	i.clearResults()
 	i.detachChilds()
 }
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func (i *TokenAPI) addResultsToParent() {
 	i.parent.result.tokens = append(i.parent.result.tokens, i.result.tokens...)
 }
 
-func (i *TokenAPI) syncCursor(to *TokenAPI) {
+func (i *TokenAPI) syncCursorTo(to *TokenAPI) {
 	to.result.offset = i.result.offset
 	*to.result.cursor = *i.result.cursor
 }

tokenapi_example_test.go

@@ -28,20 +28,20 @@ func ExampleTokenAPI_Fork() {
 	// a lot simpler. The handler from above can be replaced with:
 	simpler := parsekit.A.Str("abcd")
 
-	result, err := parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence, "abcd").Execute("abcdefgh")
+	result, err := parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence).Execute("abcdefgh")
 	fmt.Println(result, err)
-	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(simpler, "abcd").Execute("abcdefgh")
+	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(simpler).Execute("abcdefgh")
 	fmt.Println(result, err)
-	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence, "abcd").Execute("abcx")
+	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence).Execute("abcx")
 	fmt.Println(result, err)
-	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence, "abcd").Execute("xyz")
+	result, err = parsekit.NewTokenizer(abcdSequence).Execute("xyz")
 	fmt.Println(result, err)
 
 	// Output:
 	// abcd <nil>
 	// abcd <nil>
-	// <nil> unexpected input (expected abcd)
+	// <nil> unexpected input
-	// <nil> unexpected input (expected abcd)
+	// <nil> unexpected input
 }
 
 func ExampleTokenAPI_Merge() {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func ExampleTokenAPI_Merge() {
 		return true
 	}
 
-	result, _ := parsekit.NewTokenizer(tokenHandler, "a match").Execute("Hi mister X!")
+	result, _ := parsekit.NewTokenizer(tokenHandler).Execute("Hi mister X!")
 	fmt.Println(result)
 
 	// Output:

tokenhandler_test.go

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ func TestWithinTokenHandler_AcceptIncludesRuneInOutput(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Accept()
 		}
 		return true
-	}, "test")
+	})
 	result, _ := parser.Execute("This is some random data to parse")
 	if result.String() != "This is some random " {
 		t.Fatalf("Got unexpected output from TokenHandler: %s", result.String())
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func TestWithinTokenHandler_TokensCanBeEmitted(t *testing.T) {
 			Value: true,
 		})
 		return true
-	}, "test")
+	})
 	result, _ := parser.Execute("doesn't matter")
 	if len(result.Tokens()) != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("Wrong number of tokens in result, expected 2, got %d", len(result.Tokens()))
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func TestWithinTokenHandler_TokensCanBeEmitted(t *testing.T) {
 func TestUsingTokenParserCombinators_TokensCanBeEmitted(t *testing.T) {
 	var tok, c, a = parsekit.T, parsekit.C, parsekit.A
 	fooToken := tok.Str("ASCII", c.OneOrMore(a.ASCII))
-	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(fooToken, "something")
+	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(fooToken)
 	input := "This is fine ASCII Åltho hère öt endĩt!"
 	result, err := parser.Execute(input)
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func TestUsingTokenParserCombinators_TokensCanBeNested(t *testing.T) {
 		)),
 		m.Drop(c.ZeroOrMore(a.Asterisk)),
 	)
-	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(fooToken, "something")
+	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(fooToken)
 	input := "*** This is fine ASCII  Åltho hère öt endĩt! ***"
 	output := "This is fine ASCIIÅltho hère öt endĩt!"
 	result, err := parser.Execute(input)
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func TestGivenNextRuneNotCalled_CallToAcceptPanics(t *testing.T) {
 	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(func(t *parsekit.TokenAPI) bool {
 		t.Accept()
 		return false
-	}, "test")
+	})
 	parsekit.AssertPanic(t, parsekit.PanicT{
 		Function: func() { parser.Execute("input string") },
 		Regexp:   true,
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func TestGivenAcceptNotCalled_CallToNextRunePanics(t *testing.T) {
 		t.NextRune()
 		t.NextRune()
 		return false
-	}, "test")
+	})
 	parsekit.AssertPanic(t, parsekit.PanicT{
 		Function: func() { parser.Execute("input string") },
 		Regexp:   true,
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ func TestGivenNextRuneReturningNotOk_CallToAcceptPanics(t *testing.T) {
 		t.NextRune()
 		t.Accept()
 		return false
-	}, "test")
+	})
 	parsekit.AssertPanic(t, parsekit.PanicT{
 		Function: func() { parser.Execute("") },
 		Regexp:   true,

tokenhandlerresult.go

@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ func (r *TokenHandlerResult) Value(idx int) interface{} {
 	return r.tokens[idx].Value
 }
 
+// Cursor retrieves the read cursor from the TokenHandlerResult. This is the
+// first cursor position after the runes that were read by the TokenHandler.
 func (r *TokenHandlerResult) Cursor() *Cursor {
 	return r.cursor
 }

tokenhandlers_builtin_test.go

@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ func TestModifiers(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTokenMakerErrorHandling(t *testing.T) {
 	var a, tok = parsekit.A, parsekit.T
 	invalid := tok.Boolean("BOOL", a.Str("no")) // not valid for strconv.ParseBool()
-	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(invalid, "boolean")
+	parser := parsekit.NewTokenizer(invalid)
 	parsekit.AssertPanic(t, parsekit.PanicT{
 		func() { parser.Execute("no") }, false,
 		`TokenHandler error: MakeBooleanToken cannot handle input "no": strconv.ParseBool: parsing "no": ` +
@@ -380,10 +380,11 @@ func TestSequenceOfRunes(t *testing.T) {
 	input := "#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~"
 	output := ""
 	parser := parsekit.NewParser(func(p *parsekit.ParseAPI) {
-		p.Expects("Sequence of runes")
 		if p.On(sequence).Accept() {
 			output = p.Result().String()
 			p.Stop()
+		} else {
+			p.UnexpectedInput("sequence of runes")
 		}
 	})
 	err := parser.Execute(input)

tokenizer.go

@@ -23,18 +23,14 @@ type TokenHandler func(t *TokenAPI) bool
 // This is a simple wrapper around a TokenHandler function. It can be used to
 // match an input string against that TokenHandler function and retrieve the
 // results in a straight forward way.
-//
+func NewTokenizer(tokenHandler TokenHandler) *Tokenizer {
-// The 'expects' parameter is used for creating an error message in case parsed
-// input does not match the TokenHandler.
-func NewTokenizer(tokenHandler TokenHandler, expects string) *Tokenizer {
 	tokenizer := &Tokenizer{}
 	tokenizer.parser = NewParser(func(p *ParseAPI) {
 		if p.On(tokenHandler).Accept() {
 			tokenizer.result = p.Result()
 			p.Stop()
 		} else {
-			p.Expects(expects)
+			p.UnexpectedInput("")
-			p.UnexpectedInput()
 		}
 	})
 	return tokenizer

tokenizer_test.go

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func ExampleTokenizer_Execute() {
 	ip := T.Str("ip", A.IPv4)
 	mask := T.Int8("mask", A.IPv4CIDRMask)
 	cidr := C.Seq(ip, A.Slash, mask)
-	tokenizer := NewTokenizer(cidr, "cidr")
+	tokenizer := NewTokenizer(cidr)
 
 	for _, input := range []string{
 		"000.000.000.000/000",
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ func ExampleTokenizer_Execute() {
 	// Result: ip("0.0.0.0", value = (string)0.0.0.0) mask("0", value = (int8)0)
 	// Result: ip("192.168.0.1", value = (string)192.168.0.1) mask("24", value = (int8)24)
 	// Result: ip("255.255.255.255", value = (string)255.255.255.255) mask("32", value = (int8)32)
-	// Error: unexpected input (expected cidr)
+	// Error: unexpected input
-	// Error: unexpected input (expected cidr)
+	// Error: unexpected input
 }
 
 func TestCallingNextRune_ReturnsNextRune(t *testing.T) {