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Type:
Feature Request
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
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Estimated Difficulty:Medium
Description
Add support for defining virtual fields that are of type collection or array. This should work already in theory, but no matter what I tried, I got errors, so it may simply be broken. There is also one piece missing. There needs to be a way to specify the collection type parameter (item type). I'm envisioning something like this:
<List>
<Integer/> <-- defines item type
<app:DiceValues/>
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
<value>4</value>
<value>5</value>
<value>6</value>
</List>
defines the virtual field:
@DiceValues
List<Integer> anonymous;
In the same way, we should support virtual arrays:
<array>
<Integer/>
<app:DiceValues/>
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
<value>4</value>
<value>5</value>
<value>6</value>
</array>
producing:
@DiceValues
Integer[] anonymous;
The nested element for the type is a bit awkward, though (I suggested it because it's currently how array's are typed). It would make more sense to use an attribute here:
<List itemType="java.lang.Integer">
...
</List>
Also, a way to control the implementation type:
<List type="java.util.ArrayList" itemType="java.lang.Integer">
...
</List>
Once working, there definitely needs to be an example (or two) added to the documentation.
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