[swift-evolution] Smart KeyPaths

[Ricardo Parada]

That is very interesting: "formatting templates that are well typed."

Would that be like a template and keypaths that were archived to a file, similar to a .nib file?


> On Mar 20, 2017, at 7:28 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 4:01 PM, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Hi All.
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>> I’m not sure I’m understanding this proposal properly. In (old) Cocoa, two places where key paths were used extensively was EOF/CoreData, and WebObjects. I’m wondering how Smart KeyPaths will solve these two problems:
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>> 1. fetching data from a database and stuff it into objects that are not known at compile time (since you’ve written the framework ahead of time)
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>> 2. Token replacing text in a template, like ${person.firstName}
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>> Will there be some conversion of key paths to/from strings?
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> There won't be a conversion from strings in this initial proposal. That would be a reasonable thing to add later. For the use case of formatting strings, hopefully, there'll eventually be some way to build formatting templates that are well-typed instead of relying on parsing strings at runtime.
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> -Joe
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