From 41b3376fa3a1b99ad0699f32595e8b6be9bb6822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Koshka <sashakoshka@tebibyte.media>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 22:19:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] generate: Add Generator.generateDecodeBranch stub

---
 generate/generate.go | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/generate/generate.go b/generate/generate.go
index fa5c12a..0ceb666 100644
--- a/generate/generate.go
+++ b/generate/generate.go
@@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ func (this *Generator) generateDecodeValue(typ Type, valueSource, tagSource, abo
 		}
 	case TypeArray:
 		// OTA: <length: UN> <elementTag: tape.Tag> <values>*
-		// TODO: branch
+		nn, err := this.generateDecodeBranch(typ, valueSource, tagSource)
+		n += nn; if err != nil { return n, err }
 	case TypeTable:
 		// KTV: <length: UN> (<key: U16> <tag: Tag> <value>)*
 		nn, err := this.iprintf(
@@ -496,7 +497,8 @@ func (this *Generator) generateDecodeValue(typ Type, valueSource, tagSource, abo
 		n += nn; if err != nil { return n, err }
 	case TypeTableDefined:
 		// KTV: <length: UN> (<key: U16> <tag: Tag> <value>)*
-		// TODO: branch
+		nn, err := this.generateDecodeBranch(typ, valueSource, tagSource)
+		n += nn; if err != nil { return n, err }
 	case TypeNamed:
 		// WHATEVER: [WHATEVER]
 		nn, err := this.iprintf("nn, err = %s.DecodeValue(decoder, %s)\n", valueSource, tagSource)
@@ -510,6 +512,23 @@ func (this *Generator) generateDecodeValue(typ Type, valueSource, tagSource, abo
 	return n, nil
 }
 
+
+// generateDencodeValue generates code to call an aggregate decoder function,
+// for a specified type. The definition of the function is deferred so no
+// duplicates are created. The function overwrites memory pointed to by the
+// variable (or parenthetical statement) specified by valueSource, and the value
+// will be encoded according to the tag stored in the variable (or parenthetical
+// statement) specified by tagSource. the code generated is a BLOCK and expects
+// these variables to be defined:
+//
+//   - decoder *tape.Decoder
+//   - n int
+//   - err error
+//   - nn int
+func (this *Generator) generateDecodeBranch(typ Type, valueSource, tagSource string) (n int, err error) {
+	// TODO
+}
+
 func (this *Generator) generateErrorCheck() (n int, err error) {
 	return this.iprintf("n += nn; if err != nil { return n, err }\n")
 }