[stringtemplate-interest] feature request: attribute name as enum

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

As an *optional* tool that could be brilliant. It would be especially 
useful if it were combined with the return of group interfaces - this 
time with a truly useful nature of allowing code polymorphism when it 
comes to these interfaces. This could be incredibly useful for the 
project I'm (slowly) working on.

Sam

On 04/12/2011 23:47, Terence Parr wrote:
> An interesting thought. is this so that you could get some compile time
> warnings if you type in the wrong attribute name? how would you
> coordinate the enum constants with the attributes defined in the
> template file? Actually, maybe that could be automatically generated by
> a tool that looks at ST files and generates in enums?
>
> If we take this a step further, perhaps there should be a tool that
> looks at templates and generates interfaces for them so that we can
> create them directly with constructors and typed attributes?
>
> Instead of getInstanceOf("foo") and then st.add("x", 34); we could do:
>
> new foo(34);
>
> from:
>
> foo(x) ::= "value: <x>"
>
> Interesting. What do other people think?
>
> Ter
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:07 AM, AuFinNS wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it suitable to have an stringtemplate add method with signature
>>
>> public ST add(Enum<?> name, java.lang.Object value) {
>> return add(name.name(), value);
>> }
>>
>> for easy work with enums?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>> Best Regards, Max
>>
>>
>>
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