How can you make dynamic getters/setters in dart

Question

I am trying to recreate djangos QueryDict functionality and make a object that can be given a Map and it be a private variable in the object and getters/setters are used to pull from the map dynamically. I have managed to recreate the get() method of it but I am lost on dynamically getting value. Here is what I have so far:

class QueryMap {
  Map _data;

  QueryMap(Map this._data);

  dynamic get(String key, [var defaultValue]) {
    if(this._data.containsKey(key)) {
      return this._data[key];
    } else if(defaultValue) {
      return defaultValue;
    } else {
      return null;
    }
  }
}

Here is djangos page on how it works: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.QueryDict.getitem

Answer 1

You can override noSuchMethod(emulating functions)

@proxy
class QueryMap {
  Map _data = new Map();

  QueryMap();

  noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
    if (invocation.isGetter) {
      var ret = _data[invocation.memberName.toString()];
      if (ret != null) {
        return ret;
      } else {
        super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
      }
    }
    if (invocation.isSetter) {
      _data[invocation.memberName.toString().replaceAll('=', '')] =
          invocation.positionalArguments.first;
    } else {
      super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
    }
  }
}
void main() {
  QueryMap qaueryMap = new QueryMap();
  qaueryMap.greet = "Hello Dart!";
  print(qaueryMap.greet); //Hello Dart!
}

As noted by @PixelElephant with external map you have to use real method names as map keys:

import 'dart:mirrors';
@proxy
class QueryMap {
  Map _data;

  QueryMap(this._data);

  noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
    if (invocation.isGetter) {
      var ret = _data[MirrorSystem.getName(invocation.memberName)];
      if (ret != null) {
        return ret;
      } else {
        super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
      }
    }
    if (invocation.isSetter) {
      _data[MirrorSystem.getName(invocation.memberName).replaceAll('=', '')] =
          invocation.positionalArguments.first;
    } else {
      super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
    }
  }
}
void main() {
  Map myMap = new Map();
  myMap["color"] = "red";
  QueryMap qaueryMap = new QueryMap(myMap);
  qaueryMap.greet = "Hello Dart!";
  print(qaueryMap.greet); //Hello Dart!
  print(qaueryMap.color); //red
}

To avoid usage of mirrors, you can go with pattern matching on symbol's string serialization or transforming external map keys:

@proxy
class QueryMap {
  Map _data;

  QueryMap(Map data) {
    _data = new Map();
    data.forEach((k, v) => _data[new Symbol(k).toString()] = v);
  }

  noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
    if (invocation.isGetter) {
      var ret = _data[invocation.memberName.toString()];
      if (ret != null) {
        return ret;
      } else {
        super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
      }
    }
    if (invocation.isSetter) {
      _data[invocation.memberName.toString().replaceAll('=', '')] =
          invocation.positionalArguments.first;
    } else {
      super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
    }
  }
}
void main() {
  Map myMap = new Map();
  myMap["color"] = "red";
  QueryMap qaueryMap = new QueryMap(myMap);
  qaueryMap.greet = "Hello Dart!";
  print(qaueryMap.greet); //Hello Dart!
  print(qaueryMap.color); //red
}