Clinical Quality Language Specification, published by Clinical Decision Support WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.5.3 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cql/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
grammar cql;
/*
* Clinical Quality Language Grammar Specification
* Version 1.5 - Mixed Normative/Trial-Use
*/
import fhirpath;
/*
* Parser Rules
*/
definition
: usingDefinition
| includeDefinition
| codesystemDefinition
| valuesetDefinition
| codeDefinition
| conceptDefinition
| parameterDefinition
;
library
:
libraryDefinition?
definition*
statement*
EOF
;
/*
* Definitions
*/
libraryDefinition
: 'library' qualifiedIdentifier ('version' versionSpecifier)?
;
usingDefinition
: 'using' modelIdentifier ('version' versionSpecifier)?
;
includeDefinition
: 'include' qualifiedIdentifier ('version' versionSpecifier)? ('called' localIdentifier)?
;
localIdentifier
: identifier
;
accessModifier
: 'public'
| 'private'
;
parameterDefinition
: accessModifier? 'parameter' identifier (typeSpecifier)? ('default' expression)?
;
codesystemDefinition
: accessModifier? 'codesystem' identifier ':' codesystemId ('version' versionSpecifier)?
;
valuesetDefinition
: accessModifier? 'valueset' identifier ':' valuesetId ('version' versionSpecifier)? codesystems?
;
codesystems
: 'codesystems' '{' codesystemIdentifier (',' codesystemIdentifier)* '}'
;
codesystemIdentifier
: (libraryIdentifier '.')? identifier
;
libraryIdentifier
: identifier
;
codeDefinition
: accessModifier? 'code' identifier ':' codeId 'from' codesystemIdentifier displayClause?
;
conceptDefinition
: accessModifier? 'concept' identifier ':' '{' codeIdentifier (',' codeIdentifier)* '}' displayClause?
;
codeIdentifier
: (libraryIdentifier '.')? identifier
;
codesystemId
: STRING
;
valuesetId
: STRING
;
versionSpecifier
: STRING
;
codeId
: STRING
;
/*
* Type Specifiers
*/
typeSpecifier
: namedTypeSpecifier
| listTypeSpecifier
| intervalTypeSpecifier
| tupleTypeSpecifier
| choiceTypeSpecifier
;
namedTypeSpecifier
: (qualifier '.')* referentialOrTypeNameIdentifier
;
modelIdentifier
: identifier
;
listTypeSpecifier
: 'List' '<' typeSpecifier '>'
;
intervalTypeSpecifier
: 'Interval' '<' typeSpecifier '>'
;
tupleTypeSpecifier
: 'Tuple' '{' tupleElementDefinition (',' tupleElementDefinition)* '}'
;
tupleElementDefinition
: referentialIdentifier typeSpecifier
;
choiceTypeSpecifier
: 'Choice' '<' typeSpecifier (',' typeSpecifier)* '>'
;
/*
* Statements
*/
statement
: expressionDefinition
| contextDefinition
| functionDefinition
;
expressionDefinition
: 'define' accessModifier? identifier ':' expression
;
contextDefinition
: 'context' (modelIdentifier '.')? identifier
;
functionDefinition
: 'define' accessModifier? 'fluent'? 'function' identifierOrFunctionIdentifier '(' (operandDefinition (',' operandDefinition)*)? ')'
('returns' typeSpecifier)?
':' (functionBody | 'external')
;
operandDefinition
: referentialIdentifier typeSpecifier
;
functionBody
: expression
;
/*
* Expressions
*/
querySource
: retrieve
| qualifiedIdentifierExpression
| '(' expression ')'
;
aliasedQuerySource
: querySource alias
;
alias
: identifier
;
queryInclusionClause
: withClause
| withoutClause
;
withClause
: 'with' aliasedQuerySource 'such that' expression
;
withoutClause
: 'without' aliasedQuerySource 'such that' expression
;
retrieve
: '[' (contextIdentifier '->')? namedTypeSpecifier (':' (codePath codeComparator)? terminology)? ']'
;
contextIdentifier
: qualifiedIdentifierExpression
;
codePath
: simplePath
;
codeComparator
: 'in'
| '='
| '~'
;
terminology
: qualifiedIdentifierExpression
| expression
;
qualifier
: identifier
;
query
: sourceClause letClause? queryInclusionClause* whereClause? (aggregateClause | returnClause)? sortClause?
;
sourceClause
: 'from'? aliasedQuerySource (',' aliasedQuerySource)*
;
letClause
: 'let' letClauseItem (',' letClauseItem)*
;
letClauseItem
: identifier ':' expression
;
whereClause
: 'where' expression
;
returnClause
: 'return' ('all' | 'distinct')? expression
;
aggregateClause
: 'aggregate' ('all' | 'distinct')? identifier startingClause? ':' expression
;
startingClause
: 'starting' (simpleLiteral | quantity | ('(' expression ')'))
;
sortClause
: 'sort' ( sortDirection | ('by' sortByItem (',' sortByItem)*) )
;
sortDirection
: 'asc' | 'ascending'
| 'desc' | 'descending'
;
sortByItem
: expressionTerm sortDirection?
;
qualifiedIdentifier
: (qualifier '.')* identifier
;
qualifiedIdentifierExpression
: (qualifierExpression '.')* referentialIdentifier
;
qualifierExpression
: referentialIdentifier
;
simplePath
: referentialIdentifier #simplePathReferentialIdentifier
| simplePath '.' referentialIdentifier #simplePathQualifiedIdentifier
| simplePath '[' simpleLiteral ']' #simplePathIndexer
;
simpleLiteral
: STRING #simpleStringLiteral
| NUMBER #simpleNumberLiteral
;
expression
: expressionTerm #termExpression
| retrieve #retrieveExpression
| query #queryExpression
| expression 'is' 'not'? ('null' | 'true' | 'false') #booleanExpression
| expression ('is' | 'as') typeSpecifier #typeExpression
| 'cast' expression 'as' typeSpecifier #castExpression
| 'not' expression #notExpression
| 'exists' expression #existenceExpression
| expression 'properly'? 'between' expressionTerm 'and' expressionTerm #betweenExpression
| ('duration' 'in')? pluralDateTimePrecision 'between' expressionTerm 'and' expressionTerm #durationBetweenExpression
| 'difference' 'in' pluralDateTimePrecision 'between' expressionTerm 'and' expressionTerm #differenceBetweenExpression
| expression ('|' | 'union' | 'intersect' | 'except') expression #inFixSetExpression
| expression ('<=' | '<' | '>' | '>=') expression #inequalityExpression
| expression intervalOperatorPhrase expression #timingExpression
| expression ('=' | '!=' | '~' | '!~') expression #equalityExpression
| expression ('in' | 'contains') dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? expression #membershipExpression
| expression 'and' expression #andExpression
| expression ('or' | 'xor') expression #orExpression
| expression 'implies' expression #impliesExpression
;
dateTimePrecision
: 'year' | 'month' | 'week' | 'day' | 'hour' | 'minute' | 'second' | 'millisecond'
;
dateTimeComponent
: dateTimePrecision
| 'date'
| 'time'
| 'timezoneoffset'
;
pluralDateTimePrecision
: 'years' | 'months' | 'weeks' | 'days' | 'hours' | 'minutes' | 'seconds' | 'milliseconds'
;
expressionTerm
: term #termExpressionTerm
| expressionTerm '.' qualifiedInvocation #invocationExpressionTerm
| expressionTerm '[' expression ']' #indexedExpressionTerm
| 'convert' expression 'to' (typeSpecifier | unit) #conversionExpressionTerm
| ('+' | '-') expressionTerm #polarityExpressionTerm
| ('start' | 'end') 'of' expressionTerm #timeBoundaryExpressionTerm
| dateTimeComponent 'from' expressionTerm #timeUnitExpressionTerm
| 'duration' 'in' pluralDateTimePrecision 'of' expressionTerm #durationExpressionTerm
| 'difference' 'in' pluralDateTimePrecision 'of' expressionTerm #differenceExpressionTerm
| 'width' 'of' expressionTerm #widthExpressionTerm
| 'successor' 'of' expressionTerm #successorExpressionTerm
| 'predecessor' 'of' expressionTerm #predecessorExpressionTerm
| 'singleton' 'from' expressionTerm #elementExtractorExpressionTerm
| 'point' 'from' expressionTerm #pointExtractorExpressionTerm
| ('minimum' | 'maximum') namedTypeSpecifier #typeExtentExpressionTerm
| expressionTerm '^' expressionTerm #powerExpressionTerm
| expressionTerm ('*' | '/' | 'div' | 'mod') expressionTerm #multiplicationExpressionTerm
| expressionTerm ('+' | '-' | '&') expressionTerm #additionExpressionTerm
| 'if' expression 'then' expression 'else' expression #ifThenElseExpressionTerm
| 'case' expression? caseExpressionItem+ 'else' expression 'end' #caseExpressionTerm
| ('distinct' | 'flatten') expression #aggregateExpressionTerm
| ('expand' | 'collapse') expression ('per' (dateTimePrecision | expression))? #setAggregateExpressionTerm
;
caseExpressionItem
: 'when' expression 'then' expression
;
dateTimePrecisionSpecifier
: dateTimePrecision 'of'
;
relativeQualifier
: 'or before'
| 'or after'
;
offsetRelativeQualifier
: 'or more'
| 'or less'
;
exclusiveRelativeQualifier
: 'less than'
| 'more than'
;
quantityOffset
: (quantity offsetRelativeQualifier?)
| (exclusiveRelativeQualifier quantity)
;
temporalRelationship
: ('on or'? ('before' | 'after'))
| (('before' | 'after') 'or on'?)
;
intervalOperatorPhrase
: ('starts' | 'ends' | 'occurs')? 'same' dateTimePrecision? (relativeQualifier | 'as') ('start' | 'end')? #concurrentWithIntervalOperatorPhrase
| 'properly'? 'includes' dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? ('start' | 'end')? #includesIntervalOperatorPhrase
| ('starts' | 'ends' | 'occurs')? 'properly'? ('during' | 'included in') dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? #includedInIntervalOperatorPhrase
| ('starts' | 'ends' | 'occurs')? quantityOffset? temporalRelationship dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? ('start' | 'end')? #beforeOrAfterIntervalOperatorPhrase
| ('starts' | 'ends' | 'occurs')? 'properly'? 'within' quantity 'of' ('start' | 'end')? #withinIntervalOperatorPhrase
| 'meets' ('before' | 'after')? dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? #meetsIntervalOperatorPhrase
| 'overlaps' ('before' | 'after')? dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? #overlapsIntervalOperatorPhrase
| 'starts' dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? #startsIntervalOperatorPhrase
| 'ends' dateTimePrecisionSpecifier? #endsIntervalOperatorPhrase
;
term
: invocation #invocationTerm
| literal #literalTerm
| externalConstant #externalConstantTerm
| intervalSelector #intervalSelectorTerm
| tupleSelector #tupleSelectorTerm
| instanceSelector #instanceSelectorTerm
| listSelector #listSelectorTerm
| codeSelector #codeSelectorTerm
| conceptSelector #conceptSelectorTerm
| '(' expression ')' #parenthesizedTerm
;
qualifiedInvocation // Terms that can be used after the function/member invocation '.'
: referentialIdentifier #qualifiedMemberInvocation
| qualifiedFunction #qualifiedFunctionInvocation
;
qualifiedFunction
: identifierOrFunctionIdentifier '(' paramList? ')'
;
invocation
: referentialIdentifier #memberInvocation
| function #functionInvocation
| '$this' #thisInvocation
| '$index' #indexInvocation
| '$total' #totalInvocation
;
function
: referentialIdentifier '(' paramList? ')'
;
ratio
: quantity ':' quantity
;
literal
: ('true' | 'false') #booleanLiteral
| 'null' #nullLiteral
| STRING #stringLiteral
| NUMBER #numberLiteral
| LONGNUMBER #longNumberLiteral
| DATETIME #dateTimeLiteral
| DATE #dateLiteral
| TIME #timeLiteral
| quantity #quantityLiteral
| ratio #ratioLiteral
;
intervalSelector
: // TODO: Consider this as an alternative syntax for intervals... (would need to be moved up to expression to make it work)
//expression ( '..' | '*.' | '.*' | '**' ) expression;
'Interval' ('['|'(') expression ',' expression (']'|')')
;
tupleSelector
: 'Tuple'? '{' (':' | (tupleElementSelector (',' tupleElementSelector)*)) '}'
;
tupleElementSelector
: referentialIdentifier ':' expression
;
instanceSelector
: namedTypeSpecifier '{' (':' | (instanceElementSelector (',' instanceElementSelector)*)) '}'
;
instanceElementSelector
: referentialIdentifier ':' expression
;
listSelector
: ('List' ('<' typeSpecifier '>')?)? '{' (expression (',' expression)*)? '}'
;
displayClause
: 'display' STRING
;
codeSelector
: 'Code' STRING 'from' codesystemIdentifier displayClause?
;
conceptSelector
: 'Concept' '{' codeSelector (',' codeSelector)* '}' displayClause?
;
keyword
: 'after'
| 'aggregate'
| 'all'
| 'and'
| 'as'
| 'asc'
| 'ascending'
| 'before'
| 'between'
| 'by'
| 'called'
| 'case'
| 'cast'
| 'code'
| 'Code'
| 'codesystem'
| 'codesystems'
| 'collapse'
| 'concept'
| 'Concept'
| 'contains'
| 'context'
| 'convert'
| 'date'
| 'day'
| 'days'
| 'default'
| 'define'
| 'desc'
| 'descending'
| 'difference'
| 'display'
| 'distinct'
| 'div'
| 'duration'
| 'during'
| 'else'
| 'end'
| 'ends'
| 'except'
| 'exists'
| 'expand'
| 'false'
| 'flatten'
| 'fluent'
| 'from'
| 'function'
| 'hour'
| 'hours'
| 'if'
| 'implies'
| 'in'
| 'include'
| 'includes'
| 'included in'
| 'intersect'
| 'Interval'
| 'is'
| 'let'
| 'library'
| 'List'
| 'maximum'
| 'meets'
| 'millisecond'
| 'milliseconds'
| 'minimum'
| 'minute'
| 'minutes'
| 'mod'
| 'month'
| 'months'
| 'not'
| 'null'
| 'occurs'
| 'of'
| 'on or'
| 'or'
| 'or after'
| 'or before'
| 'or less'
| 'or more'
| 'or on'
| 'overlaps'
| 'parameter'
| 'per'
| 'point'
| 'predecessor'
| 'private'
| 'properly'
| 'public'
| 'return'
| 'same'
| 'second'
| 'seconds'
| 'singleton'
| 'start'
| 'starting'
| 'starts'
| 'sort'
| 'successor'
| 'such that'
| 'then'
| 'time'
| 'timezoneoffset'
| 'to'
| 'true'
| 'Tuple'
| 'union'
| 'using'
| 'valueset'
| 'version'
| 'week'
| 'weeks'
| 'where'
| 'when'
| 'width'
| 'with'
| 'within'
| 'without'
| 'xor'
| 'year'
| 'years'
;
// NOTE: Not used, this is the set of reserved words that may not appear as identifiers in ambiguous contexts
reservedWord
: 'aggregate'
| 'all'
| 'and'
| 'as'
| 'after'
| 'before'
| 'between'
| 'case'
| 'cast'
| 'Code'
| 'collapse'
| 'Concept'
| 'convert'
| 'day'
| 'days'
| 'difference'
| 'distinct'
| 'duration'
| 'during'
| 'else'
| 'exists'
| 'expand'
| 'false'
| 'flatten'
| 'from'
| 'if'
| 'in'
| 'included in'
| 'is'
| 'hour'
| 'hours'
| 'Interval'
| 'let'
| 'List'
| 'maximum'
| 'millisecond'
| 'milliseconds'
| 'minimum'
| 'minute'
| 'minutes'
| 'month'
| 'months'
| 'not'
| 'null'
| 'occurs'
| 'of'
| 'on or'
| 'or'
| 'or on'
| 'per'
| 'point'
| 'properly'
| 'return'
| 'same'
| 'second'
| 'seconds'
| 'singleton'
| 'sort'
| 'such that'
| 'then'
| 'to'
| 'true'
| 'Tuple'
| 'week'
| 'weeks'
| 'when'
| 'with'
| 'within'
| 'without'
| 'year'
| 'years'
;
// Keyword identifiers are keywords that may be used as identifiers in a referential context
// Effectively, keyword except reservedWord
keywordIdentifier
: 'asc'
| 'ascending'
| 'by'
| 'called'
| 'code'
| 'codesystem'
| 'codesystems'
| 'concept'
| 'contains'
| 'context'
| 'date'
| 'default'
| 'define'
| 'desc'
| 'descending'
| 'display'
| 'div'
| 'end'
| 'ends'
| 'except'
| 'fluent'
| 'function'
| 'implies'
| 'include'
| 'includes'
| 'intersect'
| 'library'
| 'meets'
| 'mod'
| 'or after'
| 'or before'
| 'or less'
| 'or more'
| 'overlaps'
| 'parameter'
| 'predecessor'
| 'private'
| 'public'
| 'start'
| 'starting'
| 'starts'
| 'successor'
| 'time'
| 'timezoneoffset'
| 'union'
| 'using'
| 'valueset'
| 'version'
| 'where'
| 'width'
| 'xor'
;
// Obsolete identifiers are keywords that could be used as identifiers in CQL 1.3
// NOTE: Not currently used, this is the set of keywords that were defined as allowed identifiers as part of 1.3
// NOTE: Several keywords were commented out in this list (notably exists) because of an issue with the ANTLR tooling.
// In 4.5, having these keywords as identifiers results in unacceptable parsing performance. In 4.6+, having them as
// identifiers resulted in incorrect parsing. See Github issue [#343](https://github.com/cqframework/clinical_quality_language/issues/343) for more detail
// This should no longer be an issue with 1.4 due to the introduction of reserved words
obsoleteIdentifier
: 'all'
| 'Code'
| 'code'
| 'Concept'
| 'concept'
| 'contains'
| 'date'
| 'display'
| 'distinct'
| 'end'
| 'exists'
| 'not'
| 'start'
| 'time'
| 'timezoneoffset'
| 'version'
| 'where'
;
// Function identifiers are keywords that may be used as identifiers for functions
functionIdentifier
: 'after'
| 'aggregate'
| 'all'
| 'and'
| 'as'
| 'asc'
| 'ascending'
| 'before'
| 'between'
| 'by'
| 'called'
| 'case'
| 'cast'
| 'code'
| 'Code'
| 'codesystem'
| 'codesystems'
| 'collapse'
| 'concept'
| 'Concept'
| 'contains'
| 'context'
| 'convert'
| 'date'
| 'day'
| 'days'
| 'default'
| 'define'
| 'desc'
| 'descending'
| 'difference'
| 'display'
| 'distinct'
| 'div'
| 'duration'
| 'during'
| 'else'
| 'end'
| 'ends'
| 'except'
| 'exists'
| 'expand'
| 'false'
| 'flatten'
| 'fluent'
| 'from'
| 'function'
| 'hour'
| 'hours'
| 'if'
| 'implies'
| 'in'
| 'include'
| 'includes'
| 'included in'
| 'intersect'
| 'Interval'
| 'is'
| 'let'
| 'library'
| 'List'
| 'maximum'
| 'meets'
| 'millisecond'
| 'milliseconds'
| 'minimum'
| 'minute'
| 'minutes'
| 'mod'
| 'month'
| 'months'
| 'not'
| 'null'
| 'occurs'
| 'of'
| 'or'
| 'or after'
| 'or before'
| 'or less'
| 'or more'
| 'overlaps'
| 'parameter'
| 'per'
| 'point'
| 'predecessor'
| 'private'
| 'properly'
| 'public'
| 'return'
| 'same'
| 'singleton'
| 'second'
| 'seconds'
| 'start'
| 'starting'
| 'starts'
| 'sort'
| 'successor'
| 'such that'
| 'then'
| 'time'
| 'timezoneoffset'
| 'to'
| 'true'
| 'Tuple'
| 'union'
| 'using'
| 'valueset'
| 'version'
| 'week'
| 'weeks'
| 'where'
| 'when'
| 'width'
| 'with'
| 'within'
| 'without'
| 'xor'
| 'year'
| 'years'
;
// Reserved words that are also type names
typeNameIdentifier
: 'Code'
| 'Concept'
| 'date'
| 'time'
;
referentialIdentifier
: identifier
| keywordIdentifier
;
referentialOrTypeNameIdentifier
: referentialIdentifier
| typeNameIdentifier
;
identifierOrFunctionIdentifier
: identifier
| functionIdentifier
;
identifier
: IDENTIFIER
| DELIMITEDIDENTIFIER
| QUOTEDIDENTIFIER
;
QUOTEDIDENTIFIER
: '"' (ESC | .)*? '"'
;
DATETIME
: '@' DATEFORMAT 'T' TIMEFORMAT? TIMEZONEOFFSETFORMAT?
;
LONGNUMBER
: [0-9]+'L'
;
fragment ESC
: '\\' ([`'"\\/fnrt] | UNICODE) // allow \`, \', \", \\, \/, \f, etc. and \uXXX
;