Class SyntaxPiece
One NC block's source line paired with its parsed JSON payload during soft-NC processing.
public class SyntaxPiece : ISentenceCarrier, IGetSentence, ISentenceIndexed
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SyntaxPiece
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Remarks
The design pattern of Sentence and JsonObject are one-one mapping.
JSON value type convention: Prefer base types (double, int) over string for numeric values in JsonObject. This applies to both parsing syntaxes and logic syntaxes. Strings should only be used when the value is genuinely textual (e.g., macro variable references like "#1", "Q2", coordinate IDs like "G54") or when the value cannot be parsed to a number. Use FloatTagValueSyntax, IntegerTagValueSyntax, or FloatParamPrefixes / IntParamPrefixes to store typed values at parse time.
Constructors
SyntaxPiece(Sentence, JsonObject, int)
Creates a piece binding sentence to jsonObject with its execution-order sentenceIndex.
public SyntaxPiece(Sentence sentence, JsonObject jsonObject, int sentenceIndex)
Parameters
sentenceSentencejsonObjectJsonObjectsentenceIndexint
Properties
IsFrozen
True when the parse result is held as a frozen UTF-8 snapshot instead of a live JsonObject graph — see Freeze().
public bool IsFrozen { get; }
Property Value
JsonObject
Structured parse result built by syntax passes.
While the piece is live (the default), this is the one mutable JsonObject every pipeline stage reads and writes. After Freeze(), the getter re-parses the frozen UTF-8 snapshot and returns a FRESH object on every call — treat it as a read-only snapshot: mutations land on the transient copy and are lost, and two calls return different object references. All mutating consumers run before the freeze boundary (see Freeze()), so downstream readers (NC optimization, writeback composition, GUI JSON panels) see identical content either way. Setting this property replaces the live object and discards any frozen snapshot.
public JsonObject JsonObject { get; set; }
Property Value
Sentence
Indexed source line and block text for this piece.
public Sentence Sentence { get; set; }
Property Value
SentenceIndex
0-based, session-globally unique ordinal in NC execution order.
Stamped at piece construction time by
GetSyntaxPieces(ISegmenter, List<INcDependency>, IEnumerable<IndexedFileLine>, int, NcDiagnosticProgress, CancellationToken) from the session's
SentenceIndexCounterDependency:
each piece allocates the next counter value as the lazy pipeline
materializes it, so values are strictly increasing along the executed
stream — subprogram / macro bodies inlined by
SubProgramCallSyntax and friends interleave correctly between
host blocks, including nested calls. Useful as a cross-process
alignment key (messages, ClStripPos, MachiningStep) — unlike the
(FileIndex, LineIndex) source order, it reflects execution order.
Values are NOT contiguous per file: eager label scans
(LabelScanUtil / RewindToLine) number the whole
re-segmented file and discard the pre-label prefix, leaving gaps.
Never negative — -1 stays reserved as the "not in pipeline"
sentinel on downstream carriers. When the counter dependency is
absent (legacy XML preset), numbering falls back to the caller's
contiguous begin-index sequence, which can double-book across
inline boundaries.
Required at construction: the index is identity, not optional metadata. Read-only after construction; the pipeline guarantees one stamping per piece at the wrapping chokepoint.
public int SentenceIndex { get; }
Property Value
Methods
Freeze()
Replaces the live JsonObject graph with its compact UTF-8 serialization (~13× smaller live-memory footprint per retained piece), keeping the piece readable through the JsonObject getter via on-demand re-parse. Uses CompactNanOptions — the exact leaf encoding of ToLeafCompactJsonString(JsonNode, JsonSerializerOptions) — so the JSON projection of a frozen piece is byte-identical to the live one (NaN / Infinity serialize as quoted literal strings; explicit nulls survive).
Call only after every mutating consumer of this piece has run — the
session pipeline freezes a piece once it left the executing window
(its semantics completed plus a lag margin; see
MachiningProcs.NcRunnerSessionState). Idempotent; a piece with a
null JsonObject stays null. Thread-safe against
concurrent readers: they observe either the live graph or the frozen
snapshot, never a torn state.
public void Freeze()
GetSentence()
Returns the source Sentence carried by this object.
public Sentence GetSentence()
Returns
ToString()
Serialize with Hi.NcParsers.Syntaxs.NcSyntaxUtil.Options to support NaN/Infinity.
public override string ToString()