[Discussion] Different syntax for changing the repeat value

[KSneijders]

When conditionally updating the repeat value, it's done like the image below (from examples).
Unfortunately, because of the type hint of the attrs it is unable to understand what function is being called.

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Maybe it could be changed in a way where (from example) BackgroundImage.info_header could be given to a function instead?
Might be from a global function or a static Retriever function. So:

set_retriever_repeat(BackgroundImage.info_header, instance, ...)
Retriever.set_repeat(BackgroundImage.info_header, instance, ...)

Love to know what you think!

[Divy1211]

Ooo, this is a good idea, you can already do this:

Retriever.set_repeat(BackgroundImage.info_header, instance, ...)

However, you'll get a typechecker error at the first argument instead of the function

[Divy1211]

This is something that needs to be further investigated because the type checker is supposed to understand how descriptors work and figure out when which type is being referred to, but I believe that there might be something missing in the Retriever syntax which causes the type to not be correctly deduced

[KSneijders]

That sounds like a good temporary solution as you at least have the ability to jump to the function that way, thanks!