Options to ignore certain struct fields/properties during code generation?

Hello, I’m looking to ignore struct fields of certain types based on type names (these fields are not used in Java generated code)

If I try to do this in the implementation of KotlinTypeProcessor, e.g. calling TypeSpec.Builder.propertySpecs.removeIf { }, it’s too late.

I can do this easily in the StructType constructor:

internal constructor(element: StructElement, namespaces: Map<NamespaceScope, String>)
            : super(UserElementMixin(element, namespaces)) {
        this.structType = element.type
        this.fields = element.fields.filter { /* CONDITION */ }.map { Field(it, namespaces) }
    }

But I want to make this more generic for everyone. How do I pass an option from ThriftyCompiler so it can be picked up here?

Thanks,

[benjamin-bader]

That sounds like a perfect job for a Python program 😃

[benjamin-bader]

Honestly, annotations sound like the perfect vehicle for metadata. Here’s an example of thrift annotations:

struct SomeEvent {
  1: string foo (thrifty.ignored = "true"); // <-- this is a "field" annotation
  2: string bar;
} (meta.one = "foo", meta.two = "bar");  // <-- this is a "struct" annotation