I understand that class properties can be validated via property validation and I love it. I even love more that there's an option to use the meta class to auto-complete and auto-validate class properties like this:
two string {mustBeMember(two, ["only two options are allowed", "option 2"])}
function obj = myclass(opts)
It results in this, which is beyond awesome, because it auto-completes the properties, but even also shows allowed members of the property. I.e., there's no additional function arguments check required anymore.
But now, assuming that there are not only optional, but one required property like this:
two string {mustBeMember(two, ["only two options are allowed", "option 2"])}
function obj = myclass(requiredPropTwo, opts)
obj.two = requiredPropTwo;
Now, there's no way to auto-complete property two's options anymore:
Of course, assigning the property fails, but Matlab does not understand that there's a direct linkage between my constructor argument the class property.
The only way to get proper auto-completion would be to copy the validation from the property - now we have it doubled which is not a good practice.
function obj = myclass(requiredPropTwo, opts)
requiredPropTwo string {mustBeMember(requiredPropTwo, ["only two options are allowed", "option 2"])}
obj.two = requiredPropTwo;
Questions:
- Is it possible to achieve similar behavior as in my first example without copying the validation functions?
- Is there a way to auto complete one=..., i.e. using the new argument assignment schema myclass(one=123) instead of myclass("one",123)?
