Codegen Preprocessing

Codegen Pre-Processing

Pre-processors implement the IPreProcessor interface, and are executed before your project's source code is analyzed. They're useful for validating assumptions or enforcing prerequisites for your other plugins. If these assumptions fail or you can't enforce prerequisites, you can stop the entire pipeline by throwing an exception.

Possible Use Cases

• Search for or download external programs or libraries that your code generator relies on.
• Verify the existence of files that your code generator reads, or that a file you intend to generate doesn't already exist.
• Validate the format of complicated configuration options.
• Print information that can be used for debugging.