[THRIFT-2079] Expose collection element type information through @property comments.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Cocoa - Compiler
• Labels: newbie
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: James E. King III
• Reporter: Zachary Davison
• Created: 02/Jul/13 16:53
• Updated: 10/Oct/19 23:00
• Resolved: 14/Jan/19 15:03

Description

Currently there is no easy way to know type information of collections in generated Cocoa thrift classes (due to obj-c collections not being templated).
This becomes awkward from a documentation point of view as the code is not self documenting and assumptions have to be made by the reader based on the type of elements inside a collection.

Suggest appending comments after @property declarations to indicate element type, eg:

@property (nonatomic, retain, getter=newlist, setter=setNewlist NSMutableArray * newlist; // <NSNumber*>