--- /dev/null
+/* Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
+ * Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that
+ * can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "antlr4-common.h"
+
+namespace antlr4 {
+
+ /// The default mechanism for creating tokens. It's used by default in Lexer and
+ /// the error handling strategy (to create missing tokens). Notifying the parser
+ /// of a new factory means that it notifies it's token source and error strategy.
+ template<typename Symbol>
+ class ANTLR4CPP_PUBLIC TokenFactory {
+ public:
+ virtual ~TokenFactory() {}
+
+ /// This is the method used to create tokens in the lexer and in the
+ /// error handling strategy. If text!=null, than the start and stop positions
+ /// are wiped to -1 in the text override is set in the CommonToken.
+ virtual std::unique_ptr<Symbol> create(std::pair<TokenSource *, CharStream *> source, size_t type, const std::string &text,
+ size_t channel, size_t start, size_t stop, size_t line, size_t charPositionInLine) = 0;
+
+ /// Generically useful
+ virtual std::unique_ptr<Symbol> create(size_t type, const std::string &text) = 0;
+ };
+
+} // namespace antlr4