Qute: shorter enum constant access

[FroMage]

Description

At the moment we make enum values accessible in views using this declaration:

@TemplateData
public enum ContentStatus {
    NEW,
    ACCEPTED,
    REJECTED,
    DELETED;
}

Which then exposes values such as fr_epardaud_model_ContentStatus:NEW which is handy in case of name conflict, but not so much if you don't have any conflict.

The shorter behaviour can already be obtained with @TemplateData(namespace = TemplateData.SIMPLENAME) but I'd like to have another annotation that would be an alias for this. Perhaps @TemplateEnum?

@TemplateEnum
public enum ContentStatus {
    NEW,
    ACCEPTED,
    REJECTED,
    DELETED;
}

This would be usable in the views as ContentStatus:NEW.

Note that ATM I have a special case for accessing the values() enum static member:

    @TemplateExtension(namespace = "ReputationGainReason", matchName = "*")
    static ReputationGainReason reputaionGainReason(String value) {
       return ReputationGainReason.valueOf(value);
    }

    @TemplateExtension(namespace = "ReputationGainReason", matchName = "values", priority = 6)
    static ReputationGainReason[] reputaionGainReasonValues() {
       return ReputationGainReason.values();
    }

And I wonder if we should not automatically add it as for for all enums declared with @TemplateData and @TemplateEnum? So ContentStatus:values would call the .values() static method. WDYT?

Implementation ideas

No response

[quarkus-bot]

/cc @mkouba

[mkouba]

I like the idea of @TemplateEnum with behavior equivalent to @TemplateData(namespace = TemplateData.SIMPLENAME).

And I wonder if we should not automatically add it as for for all enums declared with @templatedata and @TemplateEnum? So ContentStatus:values would call the .values() static method. WDYT?

This already works with @TemplateData(namespace = TemplateData.SIMPLENAME), just try {#each ContentStatus:values}{it}{/} or ContentStatus:values[0].

[mkouba]

In general, @TemplateData(namespace = TemplateData.SIMPLENAME) makes all public static members accessible...

[FroMage]

Thanks!