[Pasdoc-main] [ pasdoc-Bugs-2500102 ] Error when parsing Delphi 2009 files with generics

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Bugs item #2500102, was opened at 2009-01-11 23:43
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Category: parser (Delphi 200x features)
Group: 0.11.0
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Michalis Kamburelis (kambi)
Summary: Error when parsing Delphi 2009 files with generics

Initial Comment:
In Delphi 2009, Generics where introduced using a syntax like

type
 TMyList = TObjectList<MyClass>

This creates an TObjectList descendant using Items of MyClass.

Also you may inherit like

type
 TMyList = class(TObjectList<MyClass>)
   {...}
  end;

Unfortunately, PasDoc ist not able to parse these files because of the "<" and ">". Therefore, the whole file is not included in the documentation. All that is needed is to treat "<" and ">" as part of the class-name. 

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.

Thomas Hummes
tho...@gm...

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>Comment By: Michalis Kamburelis (kambi)
Date: 2011-08-08 12:27

Message:
Generics are now fully handled by PasDoc (both specialization and
declaration of generic classes). The current testcase
http://pasdoc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pasdoc/trunk/tests/ok_generic.pas
is parsed without problems :)

To try it yourself, use PasDoc from SVN, or
http://pasdoc.sipsolutions.net/DevelopmentSnapshots, or just wait for next
release.

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Comment By: Michalis Kamburelis (kambi)
Date: 2011-07-23 23:41

Message:
This is partially solved since some time. See my mail "[Pasdoc-main]
Parsing of generics specialization" on pasdoc-main mailing list,
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4D386FD3.7060505%40gmail.com&forum_name=pasdoc-main

See also SVN commit 1290. Works for Delphi and FPC generic syntax. Our
testcase
http://pasdoc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pasdoc/trunk/tests/ok_generic.pas
includes some examples.

This works exactly like you describe, we just add "<...>" to the class
name. This isn't a fully correct solution (e.g. we will not correctly
detect later that actually ancestor is "TObjectList", not literally
"TObjectList<MyClass>"), that's why I'm leaving this bug open for now. But
at least parsing the unit with generic specialization works, and result
looks sensible.

You can test it now by compiling pasdoc from SVN or getting
http://pasdoc.sipsolutions.net/DevelopmentSnapshots

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