Enhancement: Validate template variables

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

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The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating where user templates are added and compiled, then determine how variables are declared and which missing or invalid variables should fail. Done means template validation happens before code generation and reports actionable missing-variable errors.

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Description

I think that it would be nice addition if we validate the variables in a template when a user adds them. This will help the users to see if they are using the templates wrong and can suggest missing variables. This can also help when a new mandatory variable is added to a template, it will cause a failure even before the code is generated.

This can be considered as a fail fast approach. The templates written by the users need to be compilable of course.

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