hi,

Very often we use delegates in our closure calls. It would be great if we could get code-hinting in the closure via the delegates.

Now let us take a very simple scenario, where we made a method “with” which delegates the delegate objet to closure and runs it.

class Delegator {
     static def runWith(obj, Closure cl) {
        cl.delegate = obj
        cl.call()
     }
}
 
Delegator.runWith(new MyDelegate()) {
     myDelegateMethod()
     def prop = myDlegateProperty
     // And so on we can access delegate's assets 
}

Now we want out IDE to give us syntax-hint inside the closure for delegate’s methods and properties,
This can be achieved by using the following GDSL script:

//Get the context for all closures
def ctx = context(scope: closureScope())
 
contributor(ctx, {
    //See if closure is called within method "runWith"
    def call = enclosingCall("runWith") 
    if (call) {
        //Get the method object of the closure call
        def method = call.bind()
        //Get class containing that calling method.
        def clazz = method?.containingClass
        if ("Delegator".equals(clazz?.qualName)) {
            //Delegate the closure to the object passed as the first argument. 
            delegatesTo(call.arguments[0])
        }
    }
})

Hurray! now we have syntax completion for delegate’s assets in our closure.

Read Further in the “GDSL AWESOMENESS” Series

1. GDSL Awesomeness – Introduction to GDSL in IntelliJ Idea
2. GDSL Awesomeness – Understanding Context And Contributors in Detail
3. GDSL Awesomeness – Defining dynamic property in a class
4. GDSL Awesomeness – Defining dynamic method in a class
5. GDSL Awesomeness – Adding Hinting for missingMethod implementation
6. GDSL Awesomeness – Setting a global context
7. GDSL Awesomeness – Delegating Closure Calls
8. GDSL Awesomeness – Defining methods in a closure passed to method of particular name
9. GDSL Awesomeness – Defining Properties in a closure passed to method of particular name
10. GDSL Awesomeness – Contributing to classes which match a path/name pattern
11. GDSL Awesomeness – contributing methods with current class return types or parameters
12. GDSL Awesomeness – AutoComplete Script for grails-Mail-Plugin “sendMail” closure
13. GDSL Awesomeness – Getting Code of a method or Field in GDSL Script
14. GDSL Awesomeness – Advanced Example showing domain properties implementation

Hope It Helped.
Kushal Likhi