Support generic types

[michaelaird]

Rosetta should support generic types. Generic types can be used for fields, properties, variables, class types and base class types.

[michaelaird]

I spent a while poking at implementing this and going in circles.

Here are some issues/thoughts:

• GenericNameSyntax inherits from SimpleNameSyntax so it should be straightforward to differentiate between them and handle them separately
• The list of type arguments are also TypeSyntax nodes so they need to be walked recursively
• TypeReference is a likely candidate for handling generics
  • There are 2 TypeReference helpers, one specifically for BaseTypes of classes. They both need to handle generics properly
• Currently, type name mapping from C# to TypeScript is taking place outside of TypeReference ( in TypeMappings.MapType which only accepts a string)
  • Many type checks are being done using String.Contains. This could lead odd errors. (eg. a user defined type named UnavoidableIncident would be treated as void )

@andry-tino I'm not sure where to go with this right now so let me know what you think.

[andry-tino]

Hello and sorry for the long wait. I am pretty busy at the moment, I will get back to you soon! Let me also go through your code and points...

[michaelaird]

No worries. We're continuing to crank through implementing some more things. On our radar:

• Switch statements
• Try/catch blocks
• CastExpression
• ArrayCreationExpression
• ElementAccessExpression
• LogicalAndExpression
• LessThanExpression
• GreaterThanExpression
• ConditionalExpression
• LogicalOrExpression
• AsExpression

[andry-tino]

Very cool. I have some work I need to prioritize at the moment on the ScriptSharp definition generator. Once done, I will start integrating those changes.

[michaelaird]

Here's my initial crack at handling generic types(and nullable types, and arrays and some other bits).

michaelaird@e7e92dc

Over the weekend, I'm going to try to also put in calling generic methods.

[andry-tino]

Yes seems a good start. I am finalizing my changes for supporting ScriptSharp TS definition file generation via assembly only. After that I will have more times for integrating your changes.