> What are you using generated code with lots of types for out of interest
Firstly, for data access methods (think load struct type X from offline storage). It's like gobs or encoding/*, but it blasts those away when it comes to speed.
Secondly, for searching through data (given a list of struct type X, and some number of indexes of the data (essentially listing what the sorting order is according to one of the fields), search for the record that satisfies condition X, fast.
It's very handy that after generation, my vim editor will actually autocomplete all the available methods, and adding an extra method or struct to either the datastore or the in-memory searchable index is adding a line to a file and pressing a shortcut.
And the one I've started to write, given function X with named input params a,b,c and named output params d, e and f, accept an http request extracting these parameters, validating authenticated user, check CSRF, all with appropriate error handling, call function X with the parsed parameters, encode it's outputs as a json struct and return the response. Well, I'm working on this one, I guess, so this one might still change. Maybe also write a javascript interface that calls these methods to a typescript file.
And they're writing tests for a lot of these autogenerated methods. Because we do code reviews and they insist on testable code. I think this is unnecessary, but I've been seriously outvoted on this issue (having tests for one or two of the autogenerated methods, leaving the rest untested until you actually run into a problem is my preferred option). I would object, and I have. Oh well, my total lines of code written is through the roof, well on it's way to the moon, far exceeding people who've been writing code for more than double the amount of time I've been here. And it's useful code, and "useful" tests, so ...
> The approach I take is to generate actions with all the normal code in them as scaffold (for CRUD actions) - so for each one auth, then setup, then business logic,
Modifying autogenerated code is tricky and dangerous. You should never do it. It takes discipline, but you should always change the generators, never the code.