Using Haxe macros to instantiate a class with parameters
Building fields manually like that is somewhat tedious - I'd recommend to use class reification instead, where you can express the field as regular Haxe code:
macro class {
static var _pool = new Pool(/* clazz */);
}
This bypasses the "Invalid number of type parameters" issue entirely - just let type inference do the trick and omit the type parameter in new Pool()
.
The argument for the constructor call is of course variable, so we still need to use some expression reification. exp.Entity
is a field expression, so we have to use $p{}
. We can construct the type path needed for it by combining clazz.pack
and clazz.name
:
class PoolBuilder {
static public macro function build():Array<Field> {
var fields = Context.getBuildFields();
var clazz = Context.getLocalClass().get();
var path = clazz.pack.concat([clazz.name]); // ["exp", "Entity"]
var extraFields = (macro class {
static var _pool = new Pool($p{path});
}).fields;
return fields.concat(extraFields);
}
}
This generates the following code (as can be seen in exp/Entity.dump
with -D dump=pretty
):
static var _pool:exp.Pool<exp.Entity> = new exp.Pool(exp.Entity);
If you prefer adding fields by fields.push({...})
instead of using class reification, you can trigger type inference by using null
as a type in FVar(null, pool)
:
static public macro function build() : Array<Field> {
var fields = Context.getBuildFields();
var clazz = Context.getLocalClass().get();
var path = clazz.pack.concat([clazz.name]); // ["exp", "Entity"]
var pool = macro new exp.Pool($p{path});
fields.push({
name: "_pool",
access: [APrivate, AStatic],
pos: Context.currentPos(),
kind: FVar(null, pool)
});
return fields;
}
This is using @gama11 trick for path
. This generates the exact same code as @gama11 answer (and can be checked in the same way).