Enum definitions in IDLs

[anwaymukherjee]

Quick question,

if an IDL has the following
format #1
enum EnumName
{
NOTINITIALIZED = 0,
NORMAL = 1
};

Can we use it as is, or do we have to format it like this ?
format #2
enum EnumName
{
@value(0) NOTINITIALIZED,
@value(1) NORMAL
};

Because I am getting an error when I pass the following format #1 to fastddsgen
Also, is there any plan to use enum class in the cxx impl ? That would possibly avoid a lot of compilation conflicts

[JLBuenoLopez]

@anwaymukherjee

I am afraid that IDL specification does not allow the first format. The only way to set specific values in an enumeration is the second format. However, I am afraid that Fast DDS-Gen does not support yet the builtin @value annotation. You might contact eProsima commercial support team for options to accelerate its support.

Concerning the enum class implementation, it is something to be expected in the next major release for Fast DDS-Gen. #271 introduced this feature, but it is still in the development branch and not merged into master. Stay tuned!

Finally, I am moving this conversation to the Support discussion forum as it is not a proper bug in the library as per Fast DDS Contributing guidelines