Method Properties

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Method Properties

Methods could have properties which inform their behaviour

• Proposal Status: wip

• Issue Number: 242

• Proposal Doc: method-properties.md

Overview

It would be helpful if we could expose the control of how methods operated with parameters such as:

• merge - Informs if the method's output is merged into the top level keys - the default behaviour. False would keep the data under the method name (see below).

• try / except - Wrap method with try accept

• for - Run the method on some loop

• ?

Example - merge:

MyHook<-:

  foo: bar

  my_method:

    <-:

      bar: baz

    merge: False



expected_output:

  foo: bar

  my_method:

    bar: baz



assert->: |

  {{MyHook.my_method()}} {{expected_output}}

This should not be super hard to implement as methods are just hooks which can have hook_call parameters which can be injected in. Only issue is the merge functionality needs to be modified or rethought since right now it is the default. So in the future that will need to be parameterized.