com.saxonica.ee.bytecode

Class ExpressionCompiler

java.lang.Object

com.saxonica.ee.bytecode.ExpressionCompiler

Direct Known Subclasses:

ErrorExpressionCompiler, LiteralCompiler, ToBooleanCompiler, ToItemCompiler, ToIteratorCompiler

public abstract class ExpressionCompiler
extends Object

This abstract class represents the compiler (that is, Java bytecode generator) for a particular kind of expression on the expression tree. The expression compiler is called by the CompilerService working its way down the expression tree in a top down fashion: there is a one-to-one correspondence between the classes implementing the expression on the expression tree and the compiler object used to generate Java code fragments. Various methods are supplied to compile expressions; exactly one of them is called, depending on the context in which the expression appears.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ExpressionCompiler()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	allocateStatic(CompilerService compiler, Object value) Generate code to allocate static field in widget and to push field on stack
protected void	compileItemFromInt(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression) Helper method to implement compileFromItem when the class implements compileToPrimitive returning an integer
abstract void	compileToBoolean(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression) Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as a boolean Precondition: none.
abstract void	compileToItem(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression) Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as an Item Precondition: none.
abstract void	compileToIterator(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression) Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as a SequenceIterator Precondition: none.
void	compileToLoop(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression, LoopBodyGenerator loopBody) The compileToLoop method compiles this expression in such a way that the code generated by the supplied loopBody argument will be executed once for each item in the result of this expression.
void	compileToPrimitive(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression, Class requiredClass, OnEmpty onEmpty) Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression leaving a plain Java value on the stack.
abstract void	compileToPush(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression) Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression in push mode Precondition: none.
void	generateMethod(CompilerService compiler, Expression expression, org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor cv)
static void	handleEmptyStringResult(OnEmpty onEmpty, Generator ga, GeneratedMethodInfo methodInfo, LabelInfo exit)
void	unboxItem(Generator ga, Class requiredClass) Generate code to extract a primitive value from an Item (actually an Atomic value) given knowledge of the primitive type of the item
static void	verify(org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter cw, String objectName, boolean debug) Verify the generated bytecode, for diagnostic purposes
static void	visitAnnotation(CompilerService compiler, String message) Generate annotations in the bytecode, for diagnostic purposes
static void	visitLineNumber(CompilerService compiler, Generator ga, Expression expr) Generate line number of expression in byte-code

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ExpressionCompiler

public ExpressionCompiler()

Method Detail

compileToItem

public abstract void compileToItem(CompilerService compiler,
                 Expression expression)
                            throws CannotCompileException

Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as an Item Precondition: none. Postcondition: at execution time, the stack contains either an item (the result of the expression), or null (representing an empty sequence).

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

Throws:

CannotCompileException

compileToIterator

public abstract void compileToIterator(CompilerService compiler,
                     Expression expression)
                                throws CannotCompileException

Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as a SequenceIterator Precondition: none. Postcondition: at execution time, the stack contains a SequenceIterator representing the result of the expression

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

Throws:

CannotCompileException

compileToBoolean

public abstract void compileToBoolean(CompilerService compiler,
                    Expression expression)
                               throws CannotCompileException

Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression as a boolean Precondition: none. Postcondition: at execution time, the stack contains an integer (0=false, 1=true) representing the result of the expression

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

Throws:

CannotCompileException

compileToPrimitive

public void compileToPrimitive(CompilerService compiler,
                      Expression expression,
                      Class requiredClass,
                      OnEmpty onEmpty)
                        throws CannotCompileException

Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression leaving a plain Java value on the stack. This method must only be called if the static type of the expressionis such that the value is known to be representable by a value of the specified class; the cardinality must be either exactly-one or zero-or-one.

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

requiredClass - the class of the Java value that is to be left on the stack if the generated code exits normally. This must be one of Integer.TYPE, Double.TYPE, Float.TYPE, BigDecimal.class, CharSequence.class.

onEmpty - defines the action to be taken if the expression evaluates to the empty sequence. May be null if the expression is known statically not to evaluate to an empty sequence. If the return class is a primitive type (double, float, etc) this must be an instance of OnEmpty.UnwindAndJump

Throws:

CannotCompileException

handleEmptyStringResult

public static void handleEmptyStringResult(OnEmpty onEmpty,
                           Generator ga,
                           GeneratedMethodInfo methodInfo,
                           LabelInfo exit)

compileToPush

public abstract void compileToPush(CompilerService compiler,
                 Expression expression)
                            throws CannotCompileException

Generate bytecode to evaluate the expression in push mode Precondition: none. Postcondition: at execution time, the stack is unchanged, and the value of the expression has been written to the current receiver

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

Throws:

CannotCompileException

compileToLoop

public void compileToLoop(CompilerService compiler,
                 Expression expression,
                 LoopBodyGenerator loopBody)
                   throws CannotCompileException

The compileToLoop method compiles this expression in such a way that the code generated by the supplied loopBody argument will be executed once for each item in the result of this expression. The code generated by the loopBody expects to find this item on the top of the bytecode stack, and must remove it.

Note that the compileToLoop() method must not be used where there is a need to maintain the value of position() or size(), or equivalents such as updating range variables. It is therefore generally used only for compiling aggregate functions such as count() and sum().

This has proved something of an obstacle. Attempts to compile path expressions as nested loops have failed in the case where there is a dependency on position() or last(): the current dependency mechanism doesn't always allow these cases to be detected (it only tells us when an expression uses position() or last(), not when it needs to maintain position() and last()). Hence this mode of compilation is not widely implemented (other than by the default implementation) and is currently used only when compiling sum() and count().

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expression - the expression to be compiled

loopBody - a generator which produces code to be executed once for every item in the result of this expression, with that item being on the top of the bytecode stack.

Throws:

CannotCompileException

unboxItem

public void unboxItem(Generator ga,
             Class requiredClass)

Generate code to extract a primitive value from an Item (actually an Atomic value) given knowledge of the primitive type of the item

Parameters:

ga - the generator adapter

requiredClass - the type of value required

compileItemFromInt

protected final void compileItemFromInt(CompilerService compiler,
                      Expression expression)
                                 throws CannotCompileException

Helper method to implement compileFromItem when the class implements compileToPrimitive returning an integer

Parameters:

compiler -

expression -

Throws:

CannotCompileException

visitAnnotation

public static void visitAnnotation(CompilerService compiler,
                   String message)

Generate annotations in the bytecode, for diagnostic purposes

Parameters:

compiler -

message - the message to be inserted in the bytecode

allocateStatic

public static void allocateStatic(CompilerService compiler,
                  Object value)

Generate code to allocate static field in widget and to push field on stack

Parameters:

compiler - the CompilerService

value - the Object of the field

verify

public static void verify(org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter cw,
          String objectName,
          boolean debug)
                   throws CannotCompileException

Verify the generated bytecode, for diagnostic purposes

Parameters:

cw - the ClassWriter

objectName -

Throws:

CannotCompileException

visitLineNumber

public static void visitLineNumber(CompilerService compiler,
                   Generator ga,
                   Expression expr)

Generate line number of expression in byte-code

Parameters:

compiler -

ga - the generator adapter

expr - Expression

generateMethod

public void generateMethod(CompilerService compiler,
                  Expression expression,
                  org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor cv)