How can getter/setter code be generated automatically for a class in Pharo or Squeak?

Question

I have a long list of instance variables to create for a class that I want to generate the code for, rather than do it by hand. The list comes from an existing SQL database. My intention is to do it all in a pure object-oriented way with Smalltalk first, and as I learn more, save the data back to the database and work from it directly.

Is there a way of passing the list of names to method that will generate them and add them to the class definition?

In fact is there a way of adding or modifying class definitions dynamically in Smalltalk? I suspect there must and I would like to know a best practices approach.

Update: What I have in mind is more like passing a list of the instance variables to a method that will create them automatically.

It is more like:

addVariablesAndAccessors className: MyClass variablesList: ('aaaa', 'bbbb', 'cccc')

which will then result in a call to

AddVariables className: MyClass variableList: ('aaaa' 'bbbb' cccc')

and

generateAccessors className: MyClass variableList: ('aaaa' 'bbbb' cccc')

Answer 1

In OmniBrowser with the refactoring tools loaded you select the class and in the context menu Refactor class > Accessors.

Alternatively, if you only want to create an accessor for a single variable, select Refactor instance/class variable > Accessor, and select the variable you want to access.