On 12/01/11 17:01, Coen Schalkwijk wrote:
Thanks for your suggestion. Is it possible in pike to do/use/consume
something like 'they' do in dotNET:
[XMLNode name="A"]
classA{
[XMLNode name="aVar"]
string a;
[XMLNode name="cookieCount"]
int b;
}
There is no real need for this when it is so easy to look into objects,
iterate, etc.
To map special names to variables, just use a mapping:
mapping XMLNames =
([ classA : ([ "a" : "aVar", "b" : "cookieCount" ]),
classB : ([ "a" : "aVar", "b" : "somethingElse" ]) ]);
mapping default_XMLNames = ([ "a" : "aVar" ]);
object o = get_object();
mapping o_xml_names = XMLNames[object_program(o)] || default_XMLNames;
foreach (o; string var_name; mixed val) {
string name = o_xml_names[var_name];
if (!name) continue;
/* add to xml */
}
This way seems preferable to editing and cluttering old code with
annotations.
There is also Program.implements() which is probably good to use.
