[jira] [Created] (GROOVY-7956) Allow @DelegatesTo on named arguments

["Graeme Rocher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Graeme Rocher created GROOVY-7956:
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             Summary: Allow @DelegatesTo on named arguments
                 Key: GROOVY-7956
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7956
             Project: Groovy
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: GEP
            Reporter: Graeme Rocher


In order to aid static compilation for builders we have {{@DelegatesTo}} which allows statically compiled code to know what the delegate of a closure is.

This proposal is to allow {{@DelegatesTo}} on {{Map}} types such that IDEs and the static compiler can resolve the target type the named arguments are to be used on.

For example:

{code}
class Farm {
     void animal(@DelegatesTo(Animal) Map arguments, @DelegatesTo(AnimalBuilder) Closure callable) {
             def animal = new Animal(arguments)
             // handle closure
    }
} 

class Animal { String name }
{code}

The following code would then fail to compile :

{code}
def farm = new Farm()
// compilation failure, no name property on Animal
farm.animal(nam: "Dog")  { 
}
{code}

It would then be down to IDEs to also provide support for code completion etc.



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