An annotation to indicate that a field is read-only

[VariableVixen]

Lua is commonly used to allow custom scripting of outside environments, by exposing some API to the scripts. In some cases, the exposed API provides read-only fields for things like the current API version, for instance. It would be great if a generated API definition file could include such fields but mark them specifically as read-only to produce an error when code tries to modify the value. For example:

---@type MyApi
---@field readonly public Version integer The current version of the API

[exerro]

I'd really like this too!

I think the parsing side would go around luadoc.lua#L1004 plus it'd probably want an extra field in luadoc.lua#L142. I've not looked into the warning side of things but I suspect that'd be a lot harder.

[firas-assaad]

Similar suggestions are also tracked in the following issues:

• Enhancement ---@fieldread, ---@fieldwrite or attribute modifiers on typing #1298
• Enhancements to properties #1901