Al: Suggestion: Add a new DataType / Object called Interface

[megel]

There are some common datatypes e.g. for records and fields - RecordRef and FieldRef. Yes they work pretty good.

But what can you do with Pages and the other Kinds objects e.g. Reports, ...?
I suggest to define a Interface in as a new object. Interfaces could be assigned by a property e.q.:

interface 50100 "My Interface"
{
      procedure DoSomething(...)
      begin        
           // no Code allowed
      end;
}

page 50100 MyPage
{
     // …
     Interfaces = Interface::"My First Interface", Interface::"My Second Interface";
     // …

     // This Object must implement the interface method (local or global)
     procedure DoSomething(...)
     begin        
           // no Code allowed
     end;
}

The generating of this Code / Objects in the NST with C# / .NET IL is not so difficult.

How to use such interface objects - the Variant DataType must be improved with several Methods:

var varInterface: Variant;
var myInterface: Interface::"My Interface";

if varInterface.IsInterface(Interface::"My Interface") then
begin
   myInterface := varInterface;
   myInterface.DoSomething(…);
end;

What do you think About my sugestion?

[Gallimathias]

I fully support this because I and my colleagues so often face "generic" problems and push Nav to its limits. I thought the topic had already discuss here and there, but I only found the #111.

[StanislawStempin]

This is something we are already thinking about. I will mark this as a suggestion and provide updates once we get to this feature.