cfc property annotations for setters/getters

[Jesse Shaffer]

Just throwing this out there for discussion... In ACF, you can set annotations on CFC properties to enable/disable the implicit setters and getters. 

I do have several cases where I want "read-only" properties where the value can be retrieved, but not changed by outside influences.  I can achieve this currently, as I mention below, so this is more about adding some syntactic sugar.

ACF Example:

Example.cfc:
------------
component accessors=true {
    /**
     * Read only property
     * @setter false
     **/
    property name="ReadOnly" type="boolean" default=true;

    /**
     * Write only property (cant think of a good use-case for a write-only property, but its still an option...)
     * @getter false
     **/
    property name="WriteOnly" type="any";
}

In Railo, you can accomplish the same thing by overriding the implicit public getter/setter with an explicit private method:

component accessors=true {
    /**
     * Read only property
     **/
    property name="ReadOnly" type="boolean" default=true;

    /**
     * Write only property
     **/
    property name="WriteOnly" type="any";

    private function setReadOnly() {}
    private function getWriteOnly() {}
}

I personally like the simplicity of using the annotations, but is it something worthy of raising a feature request for?

[Chris Blackwell]

You can use the getter/setter attributes of cfproperty to do the same thing. e.g.

property name='username' getter='true' setter='false';

Chris

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[Jesse Shaffer]

I don't know how I missed that...  I'm just so used to doing annotations in script now that I forget about attributes.