Athunnea
Batch delegate functions to a module?
When you delegate a bunch of functions to the same module, is there a way to batch delegate them?
Instead of
defdelegate a1(), to: ABC
defdelegate a2(), to: ABC
defdelegate a3(), to: ABC
something like
defdelegate to: ABC do
a1()
a2()
a3()
end
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ex_cldr Core Team
You can use some simple meta programming like this:
defmodule Delegate do
@delegate_functions ~w(a b c d e f)a
for fun <- @delegate_functions do
defdelegate unquote(fun)(), to: OtherModule
end
end
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dimitarvp
This is a very valid way but for what it’s worth I’d either add all delegates by hand or make a short sed or awk script do it for me.
Using metaprogramming for such a simple task hurts readability and the ease of future reverse-engineering effort required to maintain the code.
Just adding nuance to your already valid advice.
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dimitarvp
There’s a better way to do this if module_path is a list of strings:
module_path
|> Enum.map(&String.to_atom/1)
|> Module.concat()
If it’s a list of atoms (like it seems to be from your post) then just remove the Enum.map part and use Module.concat directly.
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