I'm toying with the dproto library and have encountered an issue where I can't remove items from a "repeated" list of items. I'd like to see what the mixins are producing in terms of actual D code, so that I can figure out how I can correctly try to delete an entry or find the code that's generating the array and add whatever corrections are necessary to expose this ability.

Is there any way to push a mixin into a string, instead of into the code, or otherwise to view the output of the "preprocessor"?

Change the mixin(x) line to pragma(msg, x);. It will then print out the generated string at compile time instead of mixing it in so you can take a look at it.

On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 18:25:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Change the mixin(x) line to pragma(msg, x);. It will then print out the generated string at compile time instead of mixing it in so you can take a look at it.

That just gives me an error:

source/app.d(29): Error: Cannot interpret ProtocolBufferFromString!"\x0a    message Person {\x0a      required string name = 1;\x0a      required int32 id = 2;\x0a      optional string email = 3;\x0a\x0a      enum PhoneType {\x0a        MOBILE = 0;\x0a        HOME = 1;\x0a        WORK = 2;\x0a      }\x0a\x0a      message PhoneNumber {\x0a        required string number = 1;\x0a        optional PhoneType type = 2 [default = HOME];\x0a      }\x0a\x0a      repeated PhoneNumber phone = 4;\x0a    }\x0a" at compile time