zaxebo1 / haxe-traits

[DEPRECATED] Traits for Haxe

DEPRECATED

It is not recommended to use this project anymore. Use tink_lang instead.

Traits for Haxe

This macro allows to reuse code in different classes, which can't extend each other.

Features:

• Static vars / methods inheritance (even inlined).
• Multiple inheritance
• "Lazy" interfaces: traits methods are copied to descendant class, so you don't need to write implementation in each class, which implements trait. But you still can skip implementation of some methods in trait to force each descendant implement these methods (It's a sort of "classic" abstracts from Java or PHP)
• Ability to "override" trait's methods

Hints:

• Access descendant class in trait's code via traits.Trait.self()
• In overriden methods call "super" methods via traits.Trat.parent(TTraitClass).someMethod() (like super.someMethod() for normal inheritance)
• In trait's code you can access fields, which are not declared in trait, but will be declared in descendant class example

Installation:

haxelib install traits

Basic example:

interface TWorker extends traits.ITrait{
    public function work() : Void {
        trace("I'm working!");
    }
}

interface TReader extends traits.ITrait{
    public function read() : Void {
        trace("I'm reading!");
    }
}

class Test implements TWorker implements TReader {
    public function new() : Void {
        this.work(); //output: "I'm working!"
        this.read(); //output: "I'm reading!"
    }
}