diff --git a/mlir/tools/mlir-tblgen/OpDefinitionsGen.cpp b/mlir/tools/mlir-tblgen/OpDefinitionsGen.cpp
--- a/mlir/tools/mlir-tblgen/OpDefinitionsGen.cpp
+++ b/mlir/tools/mlir-tblgen/OpDefinitionsGen.cpp
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@
   // Generates getters for the attributes.
   void genAttrGetters();
 
+  // Generates setter for the attributes.
+  void genAttrSetters();
+
   // Generates getters for named operands.
   void genNamedOperandGetters();
 
@@ -300,6 +303,7 @@
   genNamedResultGetters();
   genNamedRegionGetters();
   genAttrGetters();
+  genAttrSetters();
   genBuilder();
   genParser();
   genPrinter();
@@ -381,6 +385,28 @@
   }
 }
 
+// Generate raw named setter type. This is a wrapper class that allows
+// setting to the attributes via setters instead of having to use
+// the string interface for better compile time verification.
+void OpEmitter::genAttrSetters() {
+  FmtContext fctx;
+  fctx.withBuilder("mlir::Builder(this->getContext())");
+  auto emitAttrWithStorageType = [&](StringRef name, Attribute attr) {
+    auto &method = opClass.newMethod("void", (name + "Attr").str(), 
+        (attr.getStorageType() + " attr").str());
+    auto &body = method.body();
+    body << "  this->setAttr(\"" << name << "\", attr);";
+  };
+
+  for (auto &namedAttr : op.getAttributes()) {
+    const auto &name = namedAttr.name;
+    const auto &attr = namedAttr.attr;
+    if (! attr.isDerivedAttr()) {
+      emitAttrWithStorageType(name, attr);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 // Generates the named operand getter methods for the given Operator `op` and
 // puts them in `opClass`.  Uses `rangeType` as the return type of getters that
 // return a range of operands (individual operands are `Value ` and each