Generating other code such as equals and hashCode

Hi,

I've been looking for a way of generating equals and hashCode methods 
differently to the built in IntelliJ feature and I have had success using your 
plugin. The templates I'm using are shown below:

EqualsBuilder template:

public boolean equals(Object other) {
#set ($autoImportPackages = "org.apache.commons.lang.builder.EqualsBuilder")
    if (other == null) {
        return false;
    }
    if (other == this) {
        return true;
    }
    if (other.getClass() != this.getClass()) {
        return false;
    }
    $classname that = ($classname) other;
    return new EqualsBuilder()
#foreach ($member in $members)
            .append(this.$member.accessor, that.$member.accessor)
#end
            .isEquals();
}

HashCodeBuilder template:

public int hashCode() {
#set ($autoImportPackages = "org.apache.commons.lang.builder.HashCodeBuilder")
    return new HashCodeBuilder()
#foreach ($member in $members)
            .append(this.$member.accessor)
#end
            .toHashCode();
}

It seems to me that your plugin could be more widely applicable since it deals 
to some extent with a limitation in the built in Live Template implementation 
(namely that you can't do conditionals or loop over things like methods, fields 
etc.)

Do you think there is scope to fork and extend your plugin to be a more general 
purpose code generation tool? Effectively giving the power of live templates 
but with additional language reflection capabilities as you have started to 
implement? Maybe it is better for this to be a feature request to JetBrains 
instead...

Alternatively, it might be cool to make a "Generate toString etc." plugin that 
is smaller in scope but would allow things like equals and hashcode to be 
generated more reliably and with a better context menu name.

I'm happy to help with any implementation if you feel this would be useful.

Thanks,
Toby

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tobyclem...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2011 at 1:27

senyor / generate-tostring

Generating other code such as equals and hashCode #28