How to get the current RuleContext class when visiting a TerminalNode? - antlr4

If I have
#Override public void visitTerminal(TerminalNode node) {
node.getRuleContext(); // doesn't build
}
How do I get the current RuleContext class?

I found it.
node.getParent().getPayload();
This method returns whatever object represents the data at this note. For example, for parse trees, the payload can be a Token representing a leaf node or a RuleContext object representing a rule invocation. For abstract syntax trees (ASTs), this is a Token object.

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o:graphicImage caching possible?

In my topbar I have a <o:graphicImage> to show picture from my user.
<o:graphicImage dataURI="true" height="32" width="32" styleClass="img-circle"
value="#{employeeProfileMenuPictureRequestController.getPicture_32_32(loginBean.currentEmployee)}"
lastModified="#{employeeProfileMenuPictureRequestController.lastUpdate}" />
My backend bean is the following:
#GraphicImageBean
public class EmployeeProfileMenuPictureRequestController implements Serializable {
private Date lastUpdate = new Date();
public byte[] getPicture_32_32(Employee employee) throws StorageAttachmentNotFoundException, IOException {
try {
String path = employeeProfilePictureService.findProfileImageByEmployee(employee, FileSizeType.SIZE_32_32.toString());
if (employee == null || path == null || path.isEmpty()) {
return Utils.toByteArray(Faces.getResourceAsStream("/resources/images/no-photo-icon.png"));
}
Path fileLocation = Paths.get(path);
byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(fileLocation);
LOGGER.info("END getPicture_32_32");
return data;
catch (Exception e) {
LOGGER.error(ExceptionUtils.getFullStackTrace(e));
}
return Utils.toByteArray(Faces.getResourceAsStream("/resources/images/no-photo-icon.png"));
}
public Date getLastUpdate() {
return lastUpdate;
}
}
Unfortunatelly the getPicture_32_32(Employee) is called for every page request / page navigation. This means it´s also everytime a request against the database, which takes time.
I´ve tried already to add lastModified to the <o:graphicImage>, but the function is called also everytime for each page request.
Can anybody help me to solve this?
According to <o:graphicImage> documentation:
Data URI
[...]
This approach is however not recommended for "permanent" and/or "large" images as it doesn't offer the browser any opportunity to cache the images for reuse, ~10KB would typically be the max even less so if there are more such images on the same page.
So, it does not support caching at all. The technical reason is that it basically embeds whole contents of the image in the HTML output. It does not embed an URL to the image. The lastModified is basically ignored. I should probably better document that. At least, you should absolutely remove the dataURI attribute. It's only useful for e.g. preview of an uploaded image.
And,
Image streaming
[...]
In case the property is a method expression taking arguments, each of those arguments will be converted to a string HTTP request parameter and back to actual objects using the converters registered by class as available via Application.createConverter(Class). So, most of standard types like Long are already implicitly supported. In case you need to supply a custom object as argument for some reason, you need to explicitly register a converter for it yourself via #FacesConverter(forClass).
So, because your method take a Employee argument, you basically need to have a #FacesConverter(forClass=Employee.class) so that JSF can automatically convert it from and to String. How to create converters can be found here: Conversion Error setting value for 'null Converter' - Why do I need a Converter in JSF?
You should end up with something like this:
#FacesConverter(forClass=Employee.class)
public class EmployeeConverter implements Converter {
#Override
public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object modelValue) {
// Write code here which converts Employee to its unique String representation.
}
#Override
public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String submittedValue) {
// Write code here which coverts the Employee unique String representation
// as created in above method back to the original Employee object.
}
}
An alternative is to adjust your getPicture_32_32() method to take employee ID as e.g. Long instead of employee. Then you don't need a custom converter. JSF has already a built-in converter for Long.
public byte[] getPicture_32_32(Long employeeId) {
// ...
}
<o:graphicImage
value="#{employeeProfileMenuPictureRequestController.getPicture_32_32(loginBean.currentEmployee.id)}" />
Coming back to caching, the documentation says this:
Caching
[...]
When unspecified, then the "default resource maximum age" as set in either the Mojarra specific context parameter com.sun.faces.defaultResourceMaxAge or MyFaces specific context parameter org.apache.myfaces.RESOURCE_MAX_TIME_EXPIRES will be used, else a default of 1 week will be assumed.
So, when you have no resource age settings, it's already by default cached for 1 week. The lastModified is thus optional and only useful when you actually track a timestamp in the same database or filesystem when the image is actually changed. You should then really use that instead for most optimal caching. A "random" date is absolutely not the correct way.

Applying ST to Antlr4-generated parse trees

Generated accessors of parse tree context nodes do not conform getProperty()/isProperty()/hasProperty() standard. As a result, ST can’t be applied to the parse tree directly. There seems to be 3 alternatives to apply ST to the generated parse trees:
Create ST model adapter classes for each generated context node. Then ST can be applied directly to the generated parse tree. Duplicate work here is creating model adapters.
For every parse tree node create a wrapper node that conforms getProperty()/isProperty()/hasProperty() standard. Then ST can be applied to wrapper nodes. Duplicate work here is creating wrapper nodes. (In this case parse tree is not even required; auto-parse-tree construction could be turned off and wrapper (AST) nodes could be created in grammar actions).
Create a Visitor. Each visit*() instantiates an ST specific to a context node being visited, sets parameters (which could be STs returned by visiting child nodes or simple strings) and returns the ST. This is the option I’m currently using. Duplicate work here is creating visitor and assigning template parameters in code.
Is there an Antlr4 option that generates accessors of parse tree context nodes that conform getProperty()/isProperty()/hasProperty() standard? Or is there an ST4 option that allows it accessing property() instead of looking for getProperty()?
It would be nice to simply instantiate an ST template with a root context node as a parameter and let ST traverse the tree.
Just wanted to share a solution that almost avoids duplicate work while using approach #1 from my question.
Step 1: create a model adaptor that uses reflection to call a method that does not conform getProperty()/isProperty()/hasProperty() standard.
private static class MyModelAdaptor extends ObjectModelAdaptor {
#Override
public synchronized Object getProperty(Interpreter interp, ST self, Object o, Object property, String propertyName) throws STNoSuchPropertyException {
try {
return super.getProperty(interp, self, o, property, propertyName);
} catch (STNoSuchPropertyException noProperty) {
final Class<?> cls = o.getClass();
try {
return cls.getMethod(propertyName).invoke(o);
} catch (NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException e) {
throw noProperty;
}
}
}
}
Step 2: Register model adaptors
public static STGroup registerAdaptors(STGroup stg) {
final MyModelAdaptor adaptor = new MyModelAdaptor();
for (final Class<?> cls : MyParser.class.getDeclaredClasses()) {
if (isSubclassOf(cls, ParserRuleContext.class)) {
stg.registerModelAdaptor(cls, adaptor);
}
}
return stg;
}
Step 3: implement isSubclassOf() method so that registerAdaptors() compiles:
private static boolean isSubclassOf(Class<?> cls, Class<?> superCls) {
while (cls != null) {
if (cls == superCls) {
return true;
}
cls = cls.getSuperclass();
}
return false;
}

Can I use a no-arg constructor with Hazelcast Portable?

The Hazelcast documentation on their Portable serialization mechanism says that you are not forced to use a no-arg constructor.
https://hazelcast.org/mastering-hazelcast/#serialization-start
But their example code shows fields being set directly.
#Override
public void readPortable(PortableReader reader) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Deserialize");
this.name = reader.readUTF("name");
}
and the factory used to create instances of the class being deserialized is using a no-arg constructor.
#Override
public Portable create(int classId) {
switch (classId) {
case PERSON_CLASS_ID:
return new Person();
}
return null;
}
Am I right in assuming that you are not forced to use a no-arg constructor but you can't use it to set field values when deserializing? How would you handle enforcing invariants such as never-null fields and how would you deserialize a subclass without making the fields in the superclass protected?
While deserializing you can't maintain invariants since the object is being reconstructed; so some fields are just not set. There is no point resisting this.
And you are not forced to have a no-arg constructor. As long as the factory can create an instance, HZ doesn't care how you create it.

Regarding String functionality

I was developing the below class..
public class Test1
{
public void method(Object o)
{
System.out.println("Object Verion");
}
public void method(String s)
{
System.out.println("String Version");
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Test1 question = new Test1();
//question.method(question);
question.method(null);
}
}
Now upon executing it invokes string version as output So please advise here string is treated as null and what should we pass to invoke the object version.Thanks in advance
All other things being equal, the most-specific method will be called. From the JLS:
15.12.2.5. Choosing the Most Specific Method
If more than one member method is both accessible and applicable to a
method invocation, it is necessary to choose one to provide the
descriptor for the run-time method dispatch. The Java programming
language uses the rule that the most specific method is chosen.
The informal intuition is that one method is more specific than
another if any invocation handled by the first method could be passed
on to the other one without a compile-time type error.
question.method(null) could mean either the String or Object overload, but since String is more specific (narrower) than Object, the String overload is the method that is called.

Custom getEntityNameSelectList() fails

Writing a simple JSF application I've some across the following Problem:
My entities.controller.EntityNameManager class contains a method getEntityNameSelectList() which I can use to populate a ComboBox with. This works and shows all Entities, since the Method to retrieve the Entities does not have a where clause.
This Method was automatically created.
Now I want to have a second similar Method, that filters the options based on a variable in the sessionscope. To do this I copied the original Method, renamed it to getEntityNameSelectListByUser(User theUser) and changed the Method that queries the database to one that does indeed filter by UserId.
However, when trying to load the page in the browser, I get an error stating that the controller class does not have a "EntityNameSelectListByUser" property. I assume that since my new method expects a parameter it can't be found. Is there a way I can make it aware of the Parameter or the Sessionscope userid?
Support for parameters in EL is slated for the next maintenance release of JSR 245 (announcement here; implementation here).
Assuming you don't want to wait for JEE6, you have several ways to overcome this limitation. These approached are defined in terms of POJO managed beans, so adapt them to your EJBs as appropriate.
1.
Do the session lookup and function call in a backing bean:
public String getFoo() {
FacesContext context = FacesContext
.getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext ext = context.getExternalContext();
String bar = (String) ext.getSessionMap().get("bar");
return getFoo(bar);
}
Example binding:
#{paramBean.foo}
2.
Use an EL function (defined in a TLD, mapped to a public static method):
public static String getFoo(ParamBean bean, String bar) {
return bean.getFoo(bar);
}
Example binding:
#{baz:getFoo(paramBean, bar)}
3.
Subvert the Map class to call the function (a bit of a hack and limited to one parameter):
public Map<String, String> getFooMap() {
return new HashMap<String, String>() {
#Override
public String get(Object key) {
return getFoo((String) key);
}
};
}
Example binding:
#{paramBean.fooMap[bar]}

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