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Re: [Taler] statically typed wallet, wrapper functions


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: [Taler] statically typed wallet, wrapper functions
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:06:27 +0100
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Anything that reduces the amount of code and eliminates certain errors
by providing better type checking at the same time, is great.

-Christian

On 12/14/2015 05:27 AM, Florian Dold wrote:
> We could do something like this (not implemented):
> 
> class WithdrawRequestPS implements SignatureStruct {
>   get fieldTypes () {
>     return [
>        ["reserve_pub", ReservePublicKey],
>        ["amount_with_fee", Amount],
>        ["withdraw_fee", Amount],
>        ["h_denomination_pub", HashCode],
>        ["h_coin_envelope", HashCode]];
>   }
> }
> 
> which saves us from
> 1. Having the wrapper function
> 2. Type-errors when calling the wrapper function.  In the example above,
> everything is typed and named.  We only have to get all fields and their
> order right *once*.
> 
> You'd use it like this:
> 
> let x = new WithdrawRequestPS({reserve_pub: bla, ...});
> 
> We'd automatically have the binary representation when all members are
> either PackedArenaObjects or some other type that provides us the
> necessary info.
> 
> We'd also have an automatic JSON serialization of the withdraw request,
> with is convenient for the database.
> 
> Opinions?

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