How to implement dynamic properties in Dart?
You can access the original name with MirrorSystem.getName(symbol)
So a dynamic class could look like :
import 'dart:mirrors';
class A {
final _properties = new Map<String, Object>();
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
if (invocation.isAccessor) {
final realName = MirrorSystem.getName(invocation.memberName);
if (invocation.isSetter) {
// for setter realname looks like "prop=" so we remove the "="
final name = realName.substring(0, realName.length - 1);
_properties[name] = invocation.positionalArguments.first;
return;
} else {
return _properties[realName];
}
}
return super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
}
}
main() {
final a = new A();
a.i = 151;
print(a.i); // print 151
a.someMethod(); // throws
}
You could do something like this:
import 'dart:json' as json;
main() {
var t = new Thingy();
print(t.bob());
print(t.jim());
print(json.stringify(t));
}
class Thingy {
Thingy() {
_map[const Symbol('bob')] = "blah";
_map[const Symbol('jim')] = "oi";
}
final Map<Symbol, String> _map = new Map<Symbol, String>();
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
return _map[invocation.memberName];
}
toJson() => {
'bob': _map[const Symbol('bob')],
'jim': _map[const Symbol('jim')]};
}
Update - dynamic example:
import 'dart:json' as json;
main() {
var t = new Thingy();
t.add('bob', 'blah');
t.add('jim', 42);
print(t.bob());
print(t.jim());
print(json.stringify(t));
}
class Thingy {
final Map<Symbol, String> _keys = new Map<Symbol, String>();
final Map<Symbol, dynamic> _values = new Map<Symbol, dynamic>();
add(String key, dynamic value) {
_keys[new Symbol(key)] = key;
_values[new Symbol(key)] = value;
}
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
return _values[invocation.memberName];
}
toJson() {
var map = new Map<String, dynamic>();
_keys.forEach((symbol, name) => map[name] = _values[symbol]);
return map;
}
}