Re: [Caml-list] Generation of Java code from OCaml

[Mykola Stryebkov <nick@mykola.org>]

Hi, Richard.

On 23 Вер 2009, at 22:57, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:15:08PM +0300, Mykola Stryebkov wrote:
>> I need to generate arbitrary text (more specifically, Java code) from
>> Ocaml structures, pretty similar to how json-static lib generates
>> ocaml code from ocaml structures.
>>
>> Which approach would you recommend?
>> Is it possible to use ocamlp4 for it?
>
> Do you want to generate valid Java code (or an AST) or just string
> bits of text together?

I'm going to use stringing bits of text together. But text generating  
is not
an issue here. The issue is how to make this stringing driven by
description of ocaml records.

I have few hundreds of types. For each ocaml type I want to generate
corresponding Java class with function (constructor) that initialize an
object of this class from json string. E.g.:

type json create_order_response = {
   order_id : int;
   order_code : string;
   order_price : int;
   ...
}

... must be translated in something like:

public class CreateOrderResponse extends ... implements ... {
	private int id = 0;
	private String code = "";
	private int price = 0;
	...
	public CreateOrderResponse(String json) { ... }
};

P.S.: I'm using json-static library and its preprocessor module
(http://martin.jambon.free.fr/json-static.html) to automatically  
generate
functions, used to convert records (marked by "json" keyword) to strings
in json format and vice versa.

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