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 5f8fd5c..673e306 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit
+++ b/contrib/objcwrapper/src/objc_generator.nit
@@ -1,10 +1,39 @@
+# This file is part of NIT ( http://www.nitlanguage.org ).
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Code generation
 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)
@@ -69,7 +98,7 @@ class CodeGenerator
                        nit_method_generator(commented_method, file, init_with_alloc)
                        if commented_method != commented_methods.last then file.write("\n")
                end
-               file.write("\nend")
+               file.write "\nend\n"
        end
 
        fun new_nit_generator(classe: nullable ObjcClass, file: FileWriter, init_with_alloc: Bool) do