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ziad



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:12 pm    Post subject: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Hi,

I have a DAO registry class to get hold of DAOs in an easy way and to limit to one instance of the DAOs. To get a DAO you do this:

Code:
$agentDAO = DAOReg::get('AgentDAO');
$agent = $agentDAO->findByName($name);


or usually I'll just access the methods directly like this:

Code:
$agent = DAOReg::get('AgentDAO')->findByName($name);


The problem is that because NB doesn't know what is being returned in the DAOReg::get method, I can't use autocomplete.

What would be the best way to get NB to do autocomplete on this? Is there a way to 'teach' NB which DAO will come back on the DAOReg::get call and hence do autocomplete?

If I used the first method of getting a DAO first explicitly, is there a way to force the class of the $agentDAO?

Thanks
Ziad
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christianachatz



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Zaid,

the way to teach is to add code comment to your method. If you have something like this

Code:
/**
 * @return MyType The type that is returned.
 */
public function get($param){
   return ...;
}

NB knows about the return type.

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Christian
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ziad



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for your response Christian. I guess I could use your suggestion for 'regular' functions but my DAOReg::get function actually returns different types. I guess I didn't make myself clear in the question.

Code:

// returns AgentDAO type
$agentDAO = DAOReg::get('AgentDAO');

// returns MemberDAO type
$memberDAO = DAOReg::get('MemberDAO');


So is there anyway to teach NB that the type of the object returned is what was passed in as the parameter to the DAOReg::get method? I'm guessing this is probably not possible.

But is it possible to tell NB the type of my variable on the client end (i.e. where DAOReg::get is called) instead of in the function itself? So is there a way to tell NB that the $agentDAO is of type AgentDAO in the following code?

Code:

$agentDAO = DAOReg::get('AgentDAO');


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Ziad
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christianachatz



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hello Ziad,

Quote:
So is there anyway to teach NB that the type of the object returned is what was passed in as the parameter to the DAOReg::get method? I'm guessing this is probably not possible.

I don't think so, PHP does not support generics. Perheps you can try to annotate your code like in JAVA using generic. Have never done that, but give it a try.

Quote:
But is it possible to tell NB the type of my variable on the client end (i.e. where DAOReg::get is called) instead of in the function itself? So is there a way to tell NB that the $agentDAO is of type AgentDAO in the following code?

AFAIK you can add

Code:
/**
 * @var AgentDAO $agentDAO
 */
$agentDAO = DAOReg::get('AgentDAO');


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Christian
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Eugene Morgan
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:06 pm    Post subject: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Another thing you can try is if all your DAOs extend a base DAO class, you can specify that class in the documentation for the
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ziad



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:37 am    Post subject: Re: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Eugene Morgan wrote:
Another thing you can try is if all your DAOs extend a base DAO class, you can specify that class in the documentation for the


Yes all my DAOs do extend a base DAO. It looks like your message got cut off. Please complete the rest of your post.

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ziad



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
christianachatz wrote:

I don't think so, PHP does not support generics. Perheps you can try to annotate your code like in JAVA using generic. Have never done that, but give it a try.


How would I do that? Thanks.
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Tomas Mysik
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:23 pm    Post subject: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Hi,

Dne sobota 20 června 2009 20:13:03 ziad napsal(a):
Quote:
If I used the first method of getting a DAO first explicitly, is there a
way to force the class of the $agentDAO?

as written earlier by other NB users, there is a way - use variable type in
comment [1].

HTH,
Tomas
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
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ziad



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:36 pm    Post subject: Re: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Hi Tomas,

Yeah I got how to force the type to a particular type using the @var comment but I was wondering about generics and what christian mentioned. How/where do I comment/annotate generics?

Tomas Mysik wrote:
Hi,

Dne sobota 20 června 2009 20:13:03 ziad napsal(a):
Quote:
If I used the first method of getting a DAO first explicitly, is there a
way to force the class of the $agentDAO?

as written earlier by other NB users, there is a way - use variable type in
comment [1].

HTH,
Tomas
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
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Tomas Mysik
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:01 pm    Post subject: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Hi,

Dne úterý 23 června 2009 15:36:58 ziad napsal(a):
Quote:
Yeah I got how to force the type to a particular type using the @var
comment but I was wondering about generics and what christian mentioned.
How/where do I comment/annotate generics?

IMHO there's no such possibility for PHP.

Tomas
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Eugene Morgan
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:18 pm    Post subject: force autocomplete Reply with quote
Not sure how much it will help, but the rest of my post was ...
... you can specify that class [the base class] in the documentation
for the DAOReg::get function -- at least that will give you some
autocompletion for any methods that are inherited by all DAOs.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM, ziad<address-removed> wrote:
Quote:

Eugene Morgan wrote:
Quote:
Another thing you can try is if all your DAOs extend a base DAO class, you can specify that class in the documentation for the




Yes all my DAOs do extend a base DAO. It looks like your message got cut off. Please complete the rest of your post.



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ziad



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Eugene,

Yeah that definitely does help but it would be nice to be able to get it to work properly. I saw how you can get auto-complete to work for CakePHP helpers by adding them onto an include fine and giving them types so I might try that.
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