Possibility to inject code into the generated code by codegen

[ClaudiuHBann]

Hello, is there possible to add for example a new property in each struct when codegen is generating code or after it generated?

[chrisglein]

If you have a property you're exposing in the codegen that you add to your spec it should be added to the codegen. Is there some functionality you think the codegen is missing? More information on your scenario would help? There are no generic hooks behind that common flow.

[ClaudiuHBann]

I wanted to add a macro which takes every property as an argument and generates some functions which return some metadata about the properties.
Finally the codegen windows runs before the pre build steps so I added a powershell script which does the job.

[ClaudiuHBann]

I was curious about if you can add a callback or something for the codegen windows for when it's parsing the spec and generates the c++ code to handle the code generation on your own or some magic like this, but this is too specific and most probably hard to implement and mostly worthless because of the pre build step scripts.

[chrisglein]

The right path here might be for you to fork the files in question and add the hooks you need, show in context how you'd make it, and if it seems generally useful put together a PR. If it seems generally usable, there could be a path forward. And if not, you've unblocked yourself with your own forks.