Hi, is it possible to split code between multiple files? Right now my data model is in one file and it’s becoming quite unwieldy at nearly 2000 lines of code.
I noticed that the default in the compiler is looking for a lib.mo file
Could this lib.mo import a load of other files in the same directory under the same namespace? Or is there a better way.
I think import Entity "./entity/theFileName.mo" should work (where theFileName is the name of a file in the entity directory. The syntax may have changed since I last did this.
Ok but there’s no way to split an import over multiple files like in go? Sorry my question was a bit muddled. I’m trying to avoid a single file with 10,000 lines of code in.
Putting a lib.mo (if you don’t want a named file) in the directory and having it re-export multiple other files’ public types etc. will work.
I don’t know if there’s a way to have it do this automatically though, you’d have to manually add them in the lib.mo.
Ok yeah I did mess around with that but may be more trouble than it’s worth. I’m just trying to keep the list of places I define each Entity to a minimum (as they currently change quite regularly.) So one big file is probably the way to go. Thanks!
You can define a type called Entity in a file called entity.mo and then import that everywhere else.
You might prefer to call the file types.mo, put other type definitions in there, and then do import Types "./types.mo" so you can refer to them as Types.Entity and Types.OtherType
Otherwise do import Entity "./entity.mo" and refer to it as Entity.Entity
I think he’s after a way to do a single import that pulls in multiple files, so he can split his imported code for readability. (The lib.mo/naming explicitly choice is a bit of an aside to this).
These multiple files would then all be in the same namespace. Do we maybe have a way to do this?
It’s not a big deal if you can’t. I’m working on a code generator that’ll take care of generating all the entities in one big file.