make RegexParser.err handle whitespace like literal and regex.

This overrides `err` in RegexParser to make it consume whitespace just
like regex and literal. The original motivation was:

object parser extends RegexParsers {
  def num = "\\d+".r

  def twoNums =  num ~ (num | err("error!"))
}

// succeeds
parser.parseAll(twoNums, "42    721")

// fails with a parsing Failure instead of an Error
// because err doesn't consume the whitespace but the regex does.
parser.parseAll(twoNums, "42    foo")

This may change the output of some parsers that failed to parse input
(from a Failure to an Error).

Fixes scala#29

Author: gourlaysama

build.sbt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import com.typesafe.tools.mima.plugin.{MimaPlugin, MimaKeys}
+import com.typesafe.tools.mima.core.{ProblemFilters, MissingMethodProblem}
 
 scalaModuleSettings
 
@@ -31,3 +32,5 @@ test in Test := {
         MimaKeys.reportBinaryIssues.value
         (test in Test).value
 }
+
+MimaKeys.binaryIssueFilters += ProblemFilters.exclude[MissingMethodProblem]("scala.util.parsing.combinator.RegexParsers.scala$util$parsing$combinator$RegexParsers$$super$err")

src/main/scala/scala/util/parsing/combinator/RegexParsers.scala

@@ -137,6 +137,22 @@ trait RegexParsers extends Parsers {
     }
   }
 
+  // we might want to make it public/protected in a future version
+  private def ws[T](p: Parser[T]): Parser[T] = new Parser[T] {
+    def apply(in: Input) = {
+      val offset = in.offset
+      val start = handleWhiteSpace(in.source, offset)
+      p(in.drop (start - offset))
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @inheritdoc
+   *
+   * This parser additionnal skips whitespace if `skipWhitespace` returns true.
+   */
+  override def err(msg: String) = ws(super.err(msg))
+
   override def phrase[T](p: Parser[T]): Parser[T] =
     super.phrase(p <~ opt("""\z""".r))
 

src/test/scala/scala/util/parsing/combinator/RegexParsersTest.scala

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package scala.util.parsing.combinator
 
 import org.junit.Test
-import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.{assertEquals,assertTrue}
 
 class RegexParsersTest {
   @Test
@@ -73,4 +73,19 @@ class RegexParsersTest {
     val success = parseAll(twoWords, "first second").asInstanceOf[Success[(String, String)]]
     assertEquals(("second", "first"), success.get)
   }
+
+  @Test
+  def errorConsumesWhitespace: Unit = {
+    object parser extends RegexParsers {
+      def num = "\\d+".r
+
+      def twoNums =  num ~ (num | err("error!"))
+    }
+    import parser._
+
+    // this used to return a Failure (for the second num)
+    val error = parseAll(twoNums, "458   bar")
+    assertTrue(s"expected an Error but got: ${error.getClass.getName}", error.isInstanceOf[Error])
+    assertEquals("error!", error.asInstanceOf[Error].msg)
+  }
 }