1Grammar of the schema language    {#flatbuffers_grammar}
2==============================
3
4schema = include*
5         ( namespace\_decl | type\_decl | enum\_decl | root\_decl |
6           file_extension_decl | file_identifier_decl |
7           attribute\_decl | rpc\_decl | object )*
8
9include = `include` string\_constant `;`
10
11namespace\_decl = `namespace` ident ( `.` ident )* `;`
12
13attribute\_decl = `attribute` ident | `"`ident`"` `;`
14
15type\_decl = ( `table` | `struct` ) ident metadata `{` field\_decl+ `}`
16
17enum\_decl = ( `enum` ident `:` type | `union` ident )  metadata `{`
18commasep( enumval\_decl ) `}`
19
20root\_decl = `root_type` ident `;`
21
22field\_decl = ident `:` type [ `=` scalar ] metadata `;`
23
24rpc\_decl = `rpc_service` ident `{` rpc\_method+ `}`
25
26rpc\_method = ident `(` ident `)` `:` ident metadata `;`
27
28type = `bool` | `byte` | `ubyte` | `short` | `ushort` | `int` | `uint` |
29`float` | `long` | `ulong` | `double` |
30`int8` | `uint8` | `int16` | `uint16` | `int32` | `uint32`| `int64` | `uint64` |
31`float32` | `float64` |
32`string` | `[` type `]` | ident
33
34enumval\_decl = ident [ `=` integer\_constant ]
35
36metadata = [ `(` commasep( ident [ `:` single\_value ] ) `)` ]
37
38scalar = integer\_constant | float\_constant
39
40object = { commasep( ident `:` value ) }
41
42single\_value = scalar | string\_constant
43
44value = single\_value | object | `[` commasep( value ) `]`
45
46commasep(x) = [ x ( `,` x )\* ]
47
48file_extension_decl = `file_extension` string\_constant `;`
49
50file_identifier_decl = `file_identifier` string\_constant `;`
51
52string\_constant = `\".*?\"`
53
54ident = `[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*`
55
56`[:digit:]` = `[0-9]`
57
58`[:xdigit:]` = `[0-9a-fA-F]`
59
60dec\_integer\_constant = `[-+]?[:digit:]+`
61
62hex\_integer\_constant = `[-+]?0[xX][:xdigit:]+`
63
64integer\_constant = dec\_integer\_constant | hex\_integer\_constant
65
66dec\_float\_constant = `[-+]?(([.][:digit:]+)|([:digit:]+[.][:digit:]*)|([:digit:]+))([eE][-+]?[:digit:]+)?`
67
68hex\_float\_constant = `[-+]?0[xX](([.][:xdigit:]+)|([:xdigit:]+[.][:xdigit:]*)|([:xdigit:]+))([pP][-+]?[:digit:]+)`
69
70special\_float\_constant = `[-+]?(nan|inf|infinity)`
71
72float\_constant = decimal\_float\_constant | hexadecimal\_float\_constant | special\_float\_constant
73
74boolean\_constant = `(true|false)` | (integer\_constant ? `true` : `false`)
75