JavaTokenParsers.ident doesn't work on Scala.js

[rhz]

Hi, I'm using libraryDependencies += "org.scala-js" %%% "scala-parser-combinators" % "1.0.2" in build.sbt and JavaTokenParsers.ident doesn't work for "a" (it works in the console but not in the browser). The error message is

[1.1] failure: string matching regex `\p{javaJavaIdentifierStart}\p{javaJavaIdentifierPart}*' expected but `a' found

a
^

The code to replicate it:

val p = new JavaTokenParsers {}
println(p.parse(p.ident,"a"))

Cheers,
Ricardo

[dcsobral]

This is defined as

"""\p{javaJavaIdentifierStart}\p{javaJavaIdentifierPart}*""".r

I presume all regex used by Scala.js is Javascript regex, which is rather different from Java regex, so this, and possible stringLiteral as well, doesn't work.

[rhz]

In that case wouldn't it be better to remove JavaTokenParsers from the API in Scala.js?

[aniketbhatnagar]

+1 Its a bit disappointing that out of the box parsers that use java Regex may not work in scalajs.

[aniketbhatnagar]

This may be related to/gated by scala-js/scala-js#1201

[gourlaysama]

This was fixed in master in #76, so it will end up in v1.1.0, which shouldn't be long now.