From dbebd0d70d9afbc47a42fcef57f8720396b29002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: back2dos <back2dos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:57:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow querying whether a type exists.

---
 src/tink/macro/Types.hx | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/tink/macro/Types.hx b/src/tink/macro/Types.hx
index 4a40208..87b8445 100644
--- a/src/tink/macro/Types.hx
+++ b/src/tink/macro/Types.hx
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ using tink.macro.Functions;
 using tink.CoreApi;
 
 class Types {
+
+  static public function definedType(typeName:String)
+    return
+      try {
+        Some(Context.getType(typeName));
+      }
+      catch (e:Dynamic) 
+        if (Std.string(e) == 'Type not found \'$typeName\'') None;
+        else neko.Lib.rethrow(e);
+  
   static var types = new Map<Int,Void->Type>();
   static var idCounter = 0;
   static public function getID(t:Type, ?reduced = true)