Projects Description
- GeneratorConsumer : Is the console application which consumes the generator. It is a .NET 6 core app.
- MyGenerator : Is the library which generates the data. It is a .NET Standard 2.0 library. Here is the logic of actual code generation.
- MyGenerator.Tests : Is the unit test project for the library. It is a .NET 6 class library app.
- MyGenerator.Attributes : Is the .NET standard 2.0 class library project which only as marker attributes codes, These attributes are used to trigger the code generation.
- HelloLib: Is a .NET core class library project. This project is like the third party library for which we want to generate a wrapper method via Source Generator.
Intent of Source Generator
The purpose of MyGenerator is to generate a partial class , this partial class will have one method called SayHelloWithNameWrapper. This method internally calls the SayHello(name) method
of the Hello class in the HelloLib project. The SayHelloWithNameWrapper method will have a string parameter called name.