ironfounderson · December 27, 2010 18:39 · Dec 27, 2010
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+//
+// Author: Lorenzo Bettini <http://www.lorenzobettini.it>, (C) 2004-2008
+//
+// Copyright: See COPYING file that comes with this distribution
+//
+
+#ifndef HIGHLIGHTSTATEBUILDER_H_
+#define HIGHLIGHTSTATEBUILDER_H_
+
+#include "highlightstate.h"
+
+namespace srchilite {
+
+class LangElems;
+class HighlightRuleFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Builds an HighlightState from the language definition file collected structures.
+ * This class uses dynamic overloading and it must be processed by doublecpp,
+ * http://doublecpp.sf.net, in case you need to modify it.
+ */
+class HighlightStateBuilder {
+    /// the factory for creating rules
+    HighlightRuleFactory *highlightRuleFactory;
+public:
+    HighlightStateBuilder(HighlightRuleFactory *_highlightRuleFactory);
+    virtual ~HighlightStateBuilder();
+
+    /**
+     * Builds all the rules into the passed mainState as specified in the
+     * passed LangElems
+     *
+     * @param elems the element definitions retrieved from the lang file
+     * @param mainState the main state where to store all the rules
+     */
+    void build(LangElems *elems, HighlightStatePtr mainState);
+
+    /// the following is a multi-method that needs to be processed by doublecpp
+    branches build
+    void (LangElem *elem, HighlightState *state);
+    void (StringListLangElem *elem, HighlightState *state);
+    void (DelimitedLangElem *elem, HighlightState *state);
+    void (NamedSubExpsLangElem *elem, HighlightState *state);
+    void (StateLangElem *elem, HighlightState *state);
+    endbranches
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif /*HIGHLIGHTSTATEBUILDER_H_*/