Adding configurable attributes to methods

[kdoherty2]

Adding configurable attributes to methods

[mjpt777]

Can you provide an example for reference?

[VSol-ll]

Time to time it's very beneficial to mark methods with attributes. E.g. [[gnu::always_inline]]. This can be done via macros (empty by default).

Would be really nice to categorize the functions to be able giving them different attributes:

• getters
  • getters for constant fields (in some cases we need them to be static constexpr)
• setters

[tmontgomery]

For ease of use, it might be easiest to configure a String to be prepended to getters and setters. The fields that can be static const already have a String (macro). These strings can be macros or direct values. This might be also nice for Java as these could be annotations.

[VSol-ll]

You know, in case of C++ it can be basically a set of hardcoded macros:

#ifndef SBE_CFG_METHOD_PREFIX
#  define SBE_CFG_METHOD_PREFIX
#endif 
#ifndef SBE_CFG_GETTER_PREFIX
#  define SBE_CFG_GETTER_PREFIX SBE_CFG_METHOD_PREFIX
#endif 
#ifndef SBE_CFG_CONST_FLD_GETTER_PREFIX
#  define SBE_CFG_CONST_FLD_GETTER_PREFIX SBE_CFG_GETTER_PREFIX
#endif 
#ifndef SBE_CFG_SETTER_PREFIX
#  define SBE_CFG_SETTER_PREFIX SBE_CFG_METHOD_PREFIX
#endif 
....
  SBE_CFG_GETTER_PREFIX int getField(){...}

But if it's beneficial for other langs too it's better to go SbeTool parameters.