Tab completion of struct within cell
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Hello together,
I am working on a large object-oriented database where it happens that I store structs or instances of classes within a cell. However, I experience that the autocomplete or tab completion function of Matlab does not work anymore after the cell. So, for example I define a struct "structTest":
structTest.a = 2;
structTest.b = 4;
The autocompletion works fine:

Now I save this struct within the cell "cellTest":
cellTest = cell(2,1);
cellTest{1,1} = structTest;
Unfortunately, the autocompletion does not work anymore:

Similarly, the problem occurs when I save instances of classes within a cell.
After reading about .json files for tab completion of functions and overriding the properties(obj) function in the class definition with fieldnames(obj), I still don't have a clue on how to deal with this. Especially since fieldnames(cellTest{1,1}) works just fine:
>> fieldnames(cellTest{1,1})
ans =
2×1 cell array
{'a'}
{'b'}
Any suggestions on this? It would be of great advantage, as users sometimes have to navigate quite deeply into the database.
Thank you very much for your help,
Anna
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Guillaume
le 18 Mar 2019
The reason why tab completion doesn't work for the content of a cell array can easily be explained: matlab does not look into the cell array to see what type of data is stored there.
Now you could argue that maybe it should but maybe it shouldn't. After all, cell arrays are used to store heterogeneous data, so most likely while it may be a structure in there now, maybe it will be a double next time. cell content tend to change type more often than variables do. And if all the cells are always a structure, why aren't you using a structure array instead? Tab completion will work without problems on a structure array.
In any case, the current version of matlab does not look inside the cell array, so there's no work around.
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Ken Atwell
le 23 Mar 2019
If you can try the just-released R2019a, MATLAB will now tab completion in this situation.
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