Import wildcard

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Hej !

Is there a way to do a “super wilcard” in import statements ?

I mean If I have db.User.UserType, and I want to import all db.* classes and their subtypes I can’t.
I have to do first import db.* to import all my db entities and then always do import db.User (or db.User.UserType) in order to add my subtype.
Its there a way to tell the compiler to add all including subtypes please ?

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Nope, unfortunately wildcard imports work only for primary types or statics.

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Thanks Dan for your answer.
Is there any chance this behaviour change one day or it will definitely remain like that ?

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Intuitively I would also expect it to look into package modules, so this might be something up for discussion, try opening a GitHub issue. Though implementation-wise it might be a bit tricky and that has to be considered to decide if it’s worth it.

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If we change the current behaviour it is breaking.

How about : import pack.** ?

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Hej Kevin !

Could we know if something like that could be done without doing a big Haxe Proposal thing please ?