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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.sql.compile.Parser\r
+\r
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.sql.compile;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;\r
+\r
+/* Strictly speaking we shouldn't import classes under the impl hierarchy here\r
+ * but this is work in progress.\r
+ * manish - Wed Mar 28 13:05:19 PST 2001\r
+ */\r
+import org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.StatementNode;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * The Parser interface is intended to work with Jack-generated parsers (now JavaCC).\r
+ * We will specify "STATIC=false" when building Jack parsers - this specifies\r
+ * that the generated classes will not be static, which will allow there to be\r
+ * more than one parser (this is necessary in a multi-threaded server).\r
+ * Non-static parsers do not have to be re-initialized every time they are\r
+ * used (unlike static parsers, for which one must call ReInit() between calls\r
+ * to the parser).\r
+ *\r
+ */\r
+\r
+\r
+public interface Parser\r
+{\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Parses the given statement and returns a query tree. The query tree\r
+ * at this point is a simple syntactic translation of the statement.\r
+ * No binding will have taken place, and no decisions will have been\r
+ * made regarding processing strategy.\r
+ *\r
+ * @param statementSQLText The Statement to parse.\r
+ * @param paramDefaults Parameter defaults\r
+ * @return A new QueryTree representing the syntax of the Statement\r
+ *\r
+ * @exception StandardException Thrown on failure\r
+ */\r
+ public StatementNode parseStatement(String statementSQLText,\r
+ Object[] paramDefaults) \r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+\r
+ public StatementNode parseStatement(String statementSQLText)\r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Returns the current SQL text string that is being parsed.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return Current SQL text string.\r
+ *\r
+ */\r
+ public String getSQLtext();\r
+\r
+}\r