manhvu

manhvu

In a large repo, working with module need to add alias too much is quite annoyed and not good for organizing code.

I think better add support for namespace can bring more convenient for dev.

This is a basic example for namespace cross multi modules.

Example:

defmodule MyApp.A do
  namespace MyApp.DataProcessing

  def a do
  # do somethings
  end

  defmacro macroA(name, opts) do
    #...
  end
end

defmodule MyApp.B do
 namespace MyApp.DataProcessing

 def b do
  # somethings
 end
end

defmodule MyApp.C do
  namespace MyApp.DataProcessing

  def do_something(data) do
    data
    |> A.a()
    |> B.b()
  end

 A.macroA :wrapper, type: :json
end

LS can easily to suggest dev in a namespace.

Pros:

  • Less typo like add alias for module.
  • Make code clean than before.
  • Better for LS suggest in case work in namespace.

Cons:

  • Make complicated if bring support for import, require or use.
  • Can make dev confused.

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benwilson512

benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

This idea is essentially implemented in the library Boundary GitHub - sasa1977/boundary: Manage and restrain cross-module dependencies in Elixir projects · GitHub

Do you have any thoughts on how this proposal differs, beyond basically the implicit aliasing?

FlyingNoodle

FlyingNoodle

Please don’t. I know this isn’t a democracy but I vote against it.

BartOtten

BartOtten

At mobile so in short:

defmodule DataProcessingAliases do
  defmacro __using__(opts) do
    quote do
       alias MyApp.A
       alias MyApp.B
       alias MyApp.C
     end
   end
end

Now you can use DataProcessingAliases in the modules. Mixed ground between explicit and implicit…?

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BartOtten

BartOtten

Ah, forgot about that. Need to expand it before passing it as function argument. Small change but then you can just use module names.

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