I'm new to backend Swift and thought I'd use Vapor to get up-and-running on a side project fast...
I ran vapor new WebServer --template=auth-template, and now I'm trying to figure out what something like return \.email means.
For more context, I'm looking in WebServer > Sources > App > Models > Users.swift:
import Authentication
import FluentSQLite
import Vapor
/// Allows users to be verified by basic / password auth middleware.
extension User: PasswordAuthenticatable {
/// See `PasswordAuthenticatable`.
static var usernameKey: WritableKeyPath<User, String> {
return \.email
}
// ...
}
And here is the definition of the User class:
/// A registered user, capable of owning todo items.
final class User: SQLiteModel {
// {omit extra code} ...
var email: String
// {omit extra code} ...
/// Creates a new `User`.
init(id: Int? = nil, name: String, email: String, passwordHash: String) {
// {omit extra code} ...
self.email = email
// {omit extra code} ...
}
}
What does this backslash-dot notation mean?
tl;dr: We take a look at the Swift language reference, and sure enough, the usage of this backslash-dot notation is called a key-path-expression.
(The question has been sufficiently answered, by this point.)
A more hands-on approach on how to get to that piece of buried documentation:
As you can see from the code you posted, the User class contains a property named email.
Notice that, assuming you're using Xcode, if you replace return \.email with return \, you get the compile-error "Expected expression path in Swift key path", so this is a hint that this backslash-dot notation might have to do with something called a key path.
From that documentation on key-path, we see that we could also have written \User.email (and you can try it out in Xcode with no compiler error).
Understanding the greater context of what's going on in that code:
So, semantically, to understand the meaning of the usernameKey declaration you're looking at, we might want to understand what a WritableKeyPath is. In simple, from the documentation, we see that a WritableKeyPath is: "A key path that supports reading from and writing to the resulting value."
So, we see that the usernameKey declaration takes in a WritableKeyPath object and returns a String that is User.email.
Furthermore, it's apparent that the User class needs this usernameKey property in order to conform to the PasswordAuthenticatable protocol, which was imported on the first line with import Authentication (if you care to explore there, take a look at Dependencies > Auth 2.0.0 > Authentication > Basic > BasicAuthenticatable.swift).
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I implemented the new (official) localization for Flutter (https://pascalw.me/blog/2020/10/02/flutter-1.22-internationalization.html) and everything is working fine, except that I don't know how to get the translation for a variable key.
The translation is in the ARB file, but how can I access it?
Normally I access translations using Translations.of(context).formsBack, but now I would like to get the translation of value["labels"]["label"].
Something like Translations.of(context).(value["labels"]["label"]) does not work of course.
I don't think this is possible with gen_l10n. The code that is generated by gen_l10n looks like this (somewhat abbreviated):
/// The translations for English (`en`).
class TranslationsEn extends Translations {
TranslationsEn([String locale = 'en']) : super(locale);
#override
String get confirmDialogBtnOk => 'Yes';
#override
String get confirmDialogBtnCancel => 'No';
}
As you can see it doesn't generate any code to perform a dynamic lookup.
For most cases code generation like this is a nice advantage since you get auto completion and type safety, but it does mean it's more difficult to accommodate these kinds of dynamic use cases.
The only thing you can do is manually write a lookup table, or choose another i18n solution that does support dynamic lookups.
A lookup table could look something like this. Just make sure you always pass in the current build context, so the l10n code can lookup the current locale.
class DynamicTranslations {
String get(BuildContext context, String messageId) {
switch(messageId) {
case 'confirmDialogBtnOk':
return Translations.of(context).confirmDialogBtnOk;
case 'confirmDialogBtnCancel':
return Translations.of(context).confirmDialogBtnCancel;
default:
throw Exception('Unknown message: $messageId');
}
}
}
To provide an example for https://stackoverflow.com/users/5638943/kristi-jorgji 's answer (which works fine):
app_en.arb ->
{
"languages": "{\"en\": \"English\", \"ro\": \"Romanian\"}"
}
localization_controller.dart ->
String getLocaleName(BuildContext ctx, String languageCode) {
return jsonDecode(AppLocalizations.of(ctx)!.languages)[languageCode];
}
getLocaleName(context, 'ro') -> "Romanian"
You can store a key in translation as json string.
Then you read it, parse it to Map<string,string> and access dynamically what you need.
Been using this approach with great success
I'm new to golang and am trying to understand a code example of type wrapping for the "non-atomic" type time.Time.
The type extension in question is from the Go client for GDAX on github, go-coinbase-exchange project.
The expected behavior would be for Time variables from the project (coinbase.Time), which are of type Time time.Time (as defined in the project's time.go file) to behave something like the following example for extending the "atomic" type int (from blog.riff.org in that they might follow a kind of "inheritance" from the base type for functions like Time.format (from golang's standard implementation of time:
package main
import "fmt"
type Int int
func (i Int) Add(j Int) Int {
return i + j
}
func main() {
i := Int(5)
j := Int(6)
fmt.Println(i.Add(j))
fmt.Println(i.Add(j) + 12)
}
But if I modify the code example from the project's List Account Ledger example found in Readme.md to include a print function which might otherwise give me a human-readable view of the CreatedAt struct variables (as follows), I get a compiler error saying that "type coinbase.Time has no field or method Format":
for _, e := range ledger {
print("Entry Creation: ")
fmt.Printf(e.CreatedAt.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05.999999+00"))
}
The expected behavior inside the for loop would be for it to print the ledger entries in a human-readable format. I can get the contents of the structs, but I'm not really sure how to then use the resulting wall, ext and loc members.
For example, inserting fmt.Printf("%#v", e.CreatedAt) into the for loop gives me a representation of the time that looks something like this:
coinbase.Time{wall:0x3015a123, ext:63612345678, loc:(*time.Location)(nil)}
{806986000 63638738354 <nil>}
I can also see that wall is of type uint64, that ext is of type int64 and that loc is just GMT/UTC=0 by formatting the variable as a string because fmt.Printf("%s", e.CreatedAt) gives me output which is similar to the following:
{%!s(uint64=712345678) %!s(int64=63612345678) %!s(*time.Location=<nil>)}
It seems like I'm missing something. I've requested further information through issues tab on github, but maybe this is a nube question. So I'm not sure how quick the response time would be, and I'm interested in the more general case for extending non-atomic types in go.
Named types do not inherit any methods from the underlying type (indeed there is no inheritance at all in Go); you must cast to the underlying type to call any methods from that type:
(time.Time(e.CreatedAt)).Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05.999999+00")
What does it mean in Coffeescript when a variable name begins with an "#" sign?
For example, I've been looking through the hubot source code and just in the first few lines I've looked at, I found
class Brain extends EventEmitter
# Represents somewhat persistent storage for the robot. Extend this.
#
# Returns a new Brain with no external storage.
constructor: (robot) ->
#data =
users: { }
_private: { }
#autoSave = true
robot.on "running", =>
#resetSaveInterval 5
I've seen it several other places, but I haven't been able to guess what it means.
The # symbol is a shorcut for this as you can see in Operators and Aliases.
As a shortcut for this.property, you can use #property.
It basically means that the “#” variables are instance variables of the class, that is, class members. Which souldn't be confused with class variables, that you can compare to static members.
Also, you can think of #variables as the this or self operators of OOP languages, but it's not the exact same thing as the old javascript this. That javascript this refer to the current scope, which causes some problems when your are trying to refer to the class scope inside a callback for example, that's why coffescript have introduced the #variables, to solve this kind of problem.
For example, consider the following code:
Brain.prototype = new EventEmitter();
function Brain(robot){
// Represents somewhat persistent storage for the robot. Extend this.
//
// Returns a new Brain with no external storage.
this.data = {
users: { },
_private: { }
};
this.autoSave = true;
var self = this;
robot.on('running', fucntion myCallback() {
// here is the problem, if you try to call `this` here
// it will refer to the `myCallback` instead of the parent
// this.resetSaveInterval(5);
// therefore you have to use the cached `self` way
// which coffeescript solved using #variables
self.resetSaveInterval(5);
});
}
Final thought, the # these days means that you are referring to the class instance (i.e., this or self). So, #data basically means this.data, so, without the #, it would refer to any visible variable data on scope.
I would like to be able to annotate my types and methods with meta-data and read those at runtime.
The language reference explains how to declare attribute usages, but is it actually possible to declare your own attributes?
Reading would require some kind of reflection mechanism, which I was not able to find in the reference at all, so the second part of the question probably is - is there reflection possible. If these features are not available in Swift, can they be done with Objective-C code (but on Swift instances and types)?
A relatively unrelated note: The decision of what has been modelled as an attribute and what has been added to the core syntax strikes me as pretty arbitrary. It feels like two different teams worked on the syntax and on some attributes. E.g. they put weak and unowned into the language as modifiers, but made #final and #lazy attributes. I believe that once they actually add access modifiers, they will probably be attributes likes final. Is all of this somehow related to Objective-C interoperability?
If we take the iBook as definitive, there appears to be no developer-facing way of creating arbitrary new attributes in the way you can in Java and .NET. I hope this feature comes in later, but for now, it looks like we're out of luck. If you care about this feature, you should file an enhancement request with Apple (Component: Swift Version: X)
FWIW, there's really not a way to do this in Objective-C either.
You can now do something like this! Check out "Property Wrappers" - https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Properties.html
Here's an example from that page:
#propertyWrapper
struct TwelveOrLess {
private var number = 0
var wrappedValue: Int {
get { return number }
set { number = min(newValue, 12) }
}
}
struct SmallRectangle {
#TwelveOrLess var height: Int
#TwelveOrLess var width: Int
}
var rectangle = SmallRectangle()
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "0"
rectangle.height = 10
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "10"
rectangle.height = 24
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "12"
Darts Mirrors are for me currently poorly documented and very difficult to experiment with - they behave differently in code than from within the console.
for my own use, I would love to be able to treat classes (Types) as a trees, with a node being something like:
class Node {
type ... <== Type itself
name ... <== name of current class
super ... <== super of this class, eg, extends super
mixins ... <== mixins used to build this Type
extendChildren ... <== Types for which this type is super
mixinChildren ... <== Types for which this type is a mixin
}
for the life of me, I cannot get something this basic out of current Mirrors. hoping that somebody smarter than me has given it a shot!!
Below is a simple example which prints the name of the superclass and the name of Foo's members.
Note that the API uses Symbols, not strings. These are required so that dart2js can minify code that uses mirrors, they're a bit of a pain, but they mean that your code will run cross browser, and be compact.
To convert between symbols and strings see MirrorSystem.getName() and MirrorSystem.getSymbol() (Actually I believe you can just use new Symbol('foo') now).
Also note a new feature was recently added giving a special literal syntax for symbols. Up until recently you needed to type const Symbol('foo'), now just #foo, you may see a mix of old an new when looking at examples.
See this article for more information about mirrors.
Warning - probably a few typos in the example.
import 'dart:mirrors';
class Bob {
}
class Foo extends Bob {
String bar = 'jim';
}
main() {
var classMirror = reflectClass(Foo);
print(MirrorSystem.getName(classMirror.superClass.simpleName));
classMirror.declarations.values.forEach((d) => print(MirrorSystem.getName(d.simpleName)));
}
Update: Based on what Alan said below (Also untested):
Example source:
library foo;
class B extends A {
}
class A {
}
Definition:
List<ClassMirror> findSubClasses(Symbol libraryName, ClassMirror superClass) =>
currentMirrorSystem().findLibrary(libraryName).declarations.values
.where((d) => d is ClassMirror
&& d.superClass.simpleName == superClass.simpleName);
Usage:
var cm = reflectClass(A);
var subclasses = findSubClasses(#foo, cm);
There is a #MirrorsUsed attribute that you may want to experiment with if you're interested on compiling to js. It's still experimental so expect this to change.