/* Generated By:JavaCC: Do not edit this line. Token.java Version 3.0 */
package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type;

/**
 * Describes the input token stream.
 */

public class Token {

  /**
   * An integer that describes the kind of this token. This numbering system is
   * determined by JavaCCParser, and a table of these numbers is stored in the
   * file ...Constants.java.
   */
  public int kind;

  /**
   * beginLine and beginColumn describe the position of the first character of
   * this token; endLine and endColumn describe the position of the last
   * character of this token.
   */
  public int beginLine, beginColumn, endLine, endColumn;

  /**
   * The string image of the token.
   */
  public String image;

  /**
   * A reference to the next regular (non-special) token from the input stream.
   * If this is the last token from the input stream, or if the token manager
   * has not read tokens beyond this one, this field is set to null. This is
   * true only if this token is also a regular token. Otherwise, see below for a
   * description of the contents of this field.
   */
  public Token next;

  /**
   * This field is used to access special tokens that occur prior to this token,
   * but after the immediately preceding regular (non-special) token. If there
   * are no such special tokens, this field is set to null. When there are more
   * than one such special token, this field refers to the last of these special
   * tokens, which in turn refers to the next previous special token through its
   * specialToken field, and so on until the first special token (whose
   * specialToken field is null). The next fields of special tokens refer to
   * other special tokens that immediately follow it (without an intervening
   * regular token). If there is no such token, this field is null.
   */
  public Token specialToken;

  /**
   * Returns the image.
   */
  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return image;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a new Token object, by default. However, if you want, you can
   * create and return subclass objects based on the value of ofKind. Simply add
   * the cases to the switch for all those special cases. For example, if you
   * have a subclass of Token called IDToken that you want to create if ofKind
   * is ID, simlpy add something like :
   * 
   * case MyParserConstants.ID : return new IDToken();
   * 
   * to the following switch statement. Then you can cast matchedToken variable
   * to the appropriate type and use it in your lexical actions.
   */
  public static final Token newToken(int ofKind) {
    switch (ofKind) {
    default:
      return new Token();
    }
  }

}