overriding System.Web.HttpApplication.Init?

[gauthier]

I've a problem overriding this member:

namespace smoothdev.Web.Sample.MonoRail
    use System.Web
    
    class Application
        inherits HttpApplication
        
        def init is override
            pass

which give

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error: The modifier "override" is not valid for this item (C#)

the csharp output is trying to redefine a default constructor for the class

any idea how to workaround?

[Charles]

The best that comes to mind is that you could make the class partial:

class Foo inherits Bar is partial

and then have an additional C# file that you pass to Cobra that you use to override the Init() virtual method. You can pass .cs files directly to cobra.exe and it will include them in the final compilation:

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cobra Foo.cobra FooInit.cs

If you have a lot of code to put in there, you could call back to Cobra in with "PrivateInit();" in the .cs file and have a "def privateInit" in the Cobra file.

I'll see if I can get this fixed soon.

[gauthier]

Thanks for the hint, it's helpfull

maybe now cue init should be the only way to declare class constructor for disambiguation?

[Charles]

Yep. Working on it now and changing initializers nodes to have the internal name "cue.init" rather than "init" which will avoid conflicts.

Thanks for the report.

[Charles]

Fixed in the repository. I used your example as the new test case.

"cue init" is still for initializers and "def init" is now for methods. I also made some internal improvements to the code which should help avoid future conflicts.