On 5 January 2018 at 09:04, Rajith Vitharana <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Shazni,
>
> Yes, you can, those are called structs, you can find a sample in [1]. For
> the second question what you have to do is as follows
>
> struct Person {
> string firstname;
> string lastname;
> }
>
> function <Person p1> getFirstName() (string) {
> return p1.firstname;
> }
>
> so the invocation would be as follows
>
> function main(string[] args) {
> Person person = { firstName:"abc", lasstName:"cde"};
> string firstName = person.getFirstName();
> }
>
> What we are doing here is we are binding the function to the given struct
> type inside the angle brackets, so that the function needs to be invoked on
> top of that struct type object. So inside the function, you can use that
> object as well.
> Hope this helps.
>
> [1] - https://ballerinalang.org/docs/by-example/structs
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 5 January 2018 at 07:58, Shazni Nazeer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am curious to know whether a developer can define his/her own types,
>> under his preferred package, using ballerina? Excuse me if this is a basic
>> question. I couldn't figure it out looking at the docs at [1]. Also, we
>> have the type 'Time' with a given set of utility methods by default. Say if
>> I want a type 'Calendar'. Can I do that? If yes, is there any examples?
>>
>> [1] https://ballerinalang.org/docs/
>>
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