Generate getter returning pointer to the messageobject for better accessibility

[henrihaikonen]

DESCRIPTION: KDWSDL2CPP code generator could generate pointer to the nested message object types for better accessibility and possibility to modify existing object.

USE CASE It would be very nice to be able to do something like this: message.list.append(new ListItem()); or message.list.at(i).setProperty("value"); But currently the generated getter method returns a copy of the actual member so the above mentioned code does not modify the message object. Currently programmer needs to reconstruct the whole message if a modification is needed inside the message.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: The code generator could generate a getter method for complextypes for instance: propertyType* propertyname_ptr() { return &propertyname; }

or possibly using const reference

const propertyType& propertyname_ptr() { return propertyname; }

EXAMPLE CODE: KDSoap/kdwsdl2cpp/src/converter_complextype.cpp // pointer method, only when a complex type is used. if (typeName.contains("__")) { KODE::Function pointer( mNameMapper.escape( lowerName ) + QLatin1String("_ptr"), typeName + QLatin1String("*")); pointer.setBody( QLatin1String("return &") + variableName + QLatin1Char(';') ); pointer.setConst(false); newClass.addFunction(pointer); }

[henrihaikonen]

In my application the internal datamodel is using the generated message objects. So I need to be able to access and modify any node in the structure.