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/*
 * Redberry: symbolic tensor computations.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2015:
 *   Stanislav Poslavsky   
 *   Bolotin Dmitriy       
 *
 * This file is part of Redberry.
 *
 * Redberry is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Redberry is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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 */
package cc.redberry.core.parser;

/**
 * Parser for tokens of a particular type.
 *
 * @author Dmitry Bolotin
 * @author Stanislav Poslavsky
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface TokenParser {

    /**
     * Parses the specified string expression and returns the corresponding AST node or {@code null},
     * string can not be parsed by this parser.
     *
     * @param expression string expression
     * @param parser     recursion
     * @return AST node
     */
    ParseToken parseToken(String expression, Parser parser);

    /**
     * The higher the priority, the earlier runs.
     *
     * @return priority
     */
    int priority();
}