Code generation based on service descriptions

[mtdowling]

Investigate the possibility of a command line tool that would read service descriptions and generate snippets of code that could be added to a client. For example:

<command name="get_comment" method="GET" path="/comments/{{id}}">
   <doc>Get a comment by ID</doc>
   <param name="id" type="string" required="true" location="path" doc="Comment ID" />
</command>

Would be translated to:

<?php

/**
 * Get a comment by ID 
 *
 * @param string $id Comment ID
 *
 * @return Response|DynamicCommand
 */
public function getComment($id)
{
   $command = $this->getCommand('get_comment', array(
        'id' => $id
    ));

    return $this->getConfig('client.sync') ? $this->execute($command) : $command;
}

The above code could then be added to a client class to make it easier to use the web service. Would be nice to be able to specify whether command parameters are expanded into separate arguments or if an array should be used as an argument for commands with many parameters.

[mtdowling]

I think this would fit more nicely in a guzzle-cli package that would be able to build a client template, generate code as mentioned above, and perform any other CLI actions Guzzle might need in the future.

[mtdowling]

I am not inclined to do this anymore. Closing for now.