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Re: Super's Super?
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Re: Super's Super?


  • Subject: Re: Super's Super?
  • From: Greg Titus <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 21:40:32 -0700

Yep, I think Charles has the right idea. To be a little more concrete, I think your classes should look like:

@implementation Grandparent
- realFunctionality
{
... /* your grandparents method */
}

- functionality
{
return [self realFunctionality];
}
@end

@implementation Parent
- functionality
{
... /* the override done by the parent */
}
@end

@implementation Child
- functionality
{
...
[self realFunctionality]; // gets at the grandparent's implementation, since it isn't overridden...
}
@end

Hope this helps,
--Greg

On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 09:00 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 11:02 PM, Jeff LaMarche wrote:


On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 08:47 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

Maybe your class should be the subclass of the super-super class instead of its current superclass?


Unfortunately, no. My first thought was exactly the same - perhaps the design was wrong.. but in this case, the class is most definitely appropriately a child of its superclass, there's just this one method where the behavior needs to be totally different, but I still need the functionality that the grandparent object (a non-concrete class that is the root of my framework's heirarchy) provides. =(

Hmm, maybe you could make the grandparent's method look like this:

- (someType)someMethodWithArgument:(someOtherType)someArgument {
return [someOtherMethodWithArgument:someArgument];
}

The parent class could override this, and the grandchild class could override that and call someOtherMethodWithArgument: .

Just a thought, don't know how good it is...

Charles
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