[generator] Add support for @explicitInterface metadata. #1006
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Fixes #1005.
In order to fully support "reabstraction", we need to emit member names with explicit interface names.
This isn't something we have enough information to figure out automatically, so we should allow it to be specified with metadata using a new
explicitInterface
attribute.Note this is not really a concept that
generator
"understands", it will simply output whatever is specified in this attribute. Thus the value is the C# interface name, not the Java interface name.For properties, placing
explicitInterface
on either thegetXXX
orsetXXX
methods will work. The getter value takes precedence if both are specified.This is implemented for both
interface
andclass
members, should there be other use-cases that can benefit from it.