contrib/objcwrapper: refactor `init_with_alloc` as an attribute

[nit.git] / contrib / objcwrapper / src / objc_generator.nit

diff --git a/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit b/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit
index 89e8237..673e306 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit
+++ b/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit
@@ -18,8 +18,22 @@ module objc_generator
 import objc_model
 
 class CodeGenerator
+       # Merge the calls to `alloc` and `init...` in a single constructor?
+       #
+       # If `true`, also the default behavior, initializing an extern Objective-C object looks like:
+       # ~~~nitish
+       # var o = new NSArray.init_with_array(some_other_array)
+       # ~~~
+       #
+       # If `false`, the object must first be allocated and then initialized.
+       # This is closer to the Objective-C behavior:
+       # ~~~nitish
+       # var o = new NSArray
+       # o.init_with_array(some_other_array)
+       # ~~~
+       var init_with_alloc = true is writable
+
        fun generator(classes: Array[nullable ObjcClass]) do
-               var init_with_alloc = true
                for classe in classes do
                        var file = new FileWriter.open(classe.name + ".nit")
                        nit_class_generator(classe, file, init_with_alloc)