org.mozilla.javascript.ast
Class Comment

java.lang.Object
  org.mozilla.javascript.Node
      org.mozilla.javascript.ast.AstNode
          org.mozilla.javascript.ast.Comment

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<AstNode>, java.lang.Iterable<Node>

public class Comment
extends AstNode

Node representing comments. Node type is Token.COMMENT.

JavaScript effectively has five comment types:

1. // line comments
2. /* block comments *\/
3. /** jsdoc comments *\/
4. <!-- html-open line comments
5. ^\\s*--> html-close line comments

The first three should be familiar to Java programmers. JsDoc comments are really just block comments with some conventions about the formatting within the comment delimiters. Line and block comments are described in the Ecma-262 specification.

SpiderMonkey and Rhino also support HTML comment syntax, but somewhat counterintuitively, the syntax does not produce a block comment. Instead, everything from the string <!-- through the end of the line is considered a comment, and if the token --> is the first non-whitespace on the line, then the line is considered a line comment. This is to support parsing JavaScript in <script> HTML tags that has been "hidden" from very old browsers by surrounding it with HTML comment delimiters.

Note the node start position for Comment nodes is still relative to the parent, but Comments are always stored directly in the AstRoot node, so they are also effectively absolute offsets.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.ast.AstNode

AstNode.DebugPrintVisitor, AstNode.PositionComparator

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.Node

Node.NodeIterator

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.ast.AstNode

length, parent, position

Fields inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.Node

ATTRIBUTE_FLAG, BOTH, CASEARRAY_PROP, CATCH_SCOPE_PROP, CONTROL_BLOCK_PROP, DECR_FLAG, DESCENDANTS_FLAG, DESTRUCTURING_ARRAY_LENGTH, DESTRUCTURING_NAMES, DESTRUCTURING_PARAMS, DESTRUCTURING_SHORTHAND, DIRECTCALL_PROP, END_DROPS_OFF, END_RETURNS, END_RETURNS_VALUE, END_UNREACHED, END_YIELDS, EXPRESSION_CLOSURE_PROP, first, FUNCTION_PROP, GENERATOR_END_PROP, INCRDECR_PROP, ISNUMBER_PROP, JSDOC_PROP, LABEL_ID_PROP, last, LAST_PROP, LEFT, lineno, LOCAL_BLOCK_PROP, LOCAL_PROP, MEMBER_TYPE_PROP, NAME_PROP, next, NON_SPECIALCALL, OBJECT_IDS_PROP, PARENTHESIZED_PROP, POST_FLAG, PROPERTY_FLAG, propListHead, REGEXP_PROP, RIGHT, SKIP_INDEXES_PROP, SPECIALCALL_EVAL, SPECIALCALL_PROP, SPECIALCALL_WITH, TARGETBLOCK_PROP, type, VARIABLE_PROP

Constructor Summary

Comment(int pos, int len, Token.CommentType type, java.lang.String value)
Constructs a new Comment

Method Summary

Token.CommentType	getCommentType() Returns the comment style
java.lang.String	getValue() Returns a string of the comment value.
void	setCommentType(Token.CommentType type) Sets the comment style
java.lang.String	toSource(int depth) Emits source code for this node.
void	visit(NodeVisitor v) Comment nodes are not visited during normal visitor traversals, but comply with the AstNode.visit(org.mozilla.javascript.ast.NodeVisitor) interface.

Methods inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.ast.AstNode

addChild, assertNotNull, codeBug, compareTo, debugPrint, depth, getAbsolutePosition, getAstRoot, getEnclosingFunction, getEnclosingScope, getLength, getLineno, getParent, getPosition, hasSideEffects, makeIndent, operatorToString, printList, setBounds, setLength, setParent, setPosition, setRelative, shortName, toSource

Methods inherited from class org.mozilla.javascript.Node

addChildAfter, addChildBefore, addChildrenToBack, addChildrenToFront, addChildToBack, addChildToFront, getChildBefore, getDouble, getExistingIntProp, getFirstChild, getIntProp, getJsDoc, getJsDocNode, getLastChild, getLastSibling, getNext, getProp, getScope, getString, getType, hasChildren, hasConsistentReturnUsage, iterator, labelId, labelId, newNumber, newString, newString, newTarget, putIntProp, putProp, removeChild, removeChildren, removeProp, replaceChild, replaceChildAfter, resetTargets, setDouble, setJsDocNode, setLineno, setScope, setString, setType, toString, toStringTree

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Comment

public Comment(int pos,
               int len,
               Token.CommentType type,
               java.lang.String value)

Constructs a new Comment

Parameters:

pos - the start position

len - the length including delimiter(s)

type - the comment type

value - the value of the comment, as a string

Method Detail

getCommentType

public Token.CommentType getCommentType()

Returns the comment style

setCommentType

public void setCommentType(Token.CommentType type)

Sets the comment style

Parameters:

type - the comment style, a Token.CommentType

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Returns a string of the comment value.

toSource

public java.lang.String toSource(int depth)

Description copied from class: AstNode

Emits source code for this node. Callee is responsible for calling this function recursively on children, incrementing indent as appropriate.

Note: if the parser was in error-recovery mode, some AST nodes may have null children that are expected to be non-null when no errors are present. In this situation, the behavior of the toSource method is undefined: toSource implementations may assume that the AST node is error-free, since it is intended to be invoked only at runtime after a successful parse.

Specified by:

toSource in class AstNode

Parameters:

depth - the current recursion depth, typically beginning at 0 when called on the root node.

visit

public void visit(NodeVisitor v)

Comment nodes are not visited during normal visitor traversals, but comply with the AstNode.visit(org.mozilla.javascript.ast.NodeVisitor) interface.

Specified by:

visit in class AstNode

Parameters:

v - the object to call with this node and its children