Annotation Processor to generate Stores for Retrofit Interfaces

[nytimes]

Annotation Processor to generate Stores for Retrofit Interfaces

[eneim]

"Store" doesn't need to be strictly used with Retrofit, your proposal should be a 3-rd party plugin :D.

[digitalbuddha]

It absoutely would be a seperate module/artifact. This is merely a convenience the way the Middleware is. Thinking about it more you don't even need to read annotations, just field types/names.

[digitalbuddha]

Step 1. Generate fetcher and Barcodes.
Step 2. Generate store for BufferedSource input only
Step 3. Add our own annotations to drive stores with and without persister/caches

[michaldrabik]

Could you provide an example of how should it look like?

For example lets take Api interface from the sample app. Should the generator take both methods (annotated with @GET("r/{subredditName}/new/.json")) and generate Stores for RedditData and ResponseBody. Or should we be able to annotate particular methods.

Maybe I am missing something?

[digitalbuddha]

I'm actually going to bang this out tomorrow. What I was thinking is annotate the entire class with @Stores which would generate a store for each Get request. You'd have to pass a factory that can create a gson instance to the annotation. You'd also need to pass the factory that creates a file system. Sorry still half an idea. I'll open a pr tomorrow and we can refine from there.

[digitalbuddha]

not done but its a start: currently generating custom Barcodes and a Module that can be extended or used with Dagger to create Stores
#64

[digitalbuddha]

Dying on the vine but moshi adapter syntax gave me some ideas.