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  • Subject: Getting objectSpecifier right...
  • From: Doug Knowles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:13:57 -0400

I'm getting the classic '«class » id 2 of document "Untitled"' response trying to get a reference to an object within my document via AppleScript.

The object in question is a member of a subclass of the class that has the objectSpecifier method (pasted below) which is returning the result.

A couple of notes:

- I am trying to build an object specifier that identifies the object by unique id within the document; specifying by index would be difficult, and slow if I have to enumerate all objects of the class (I'm anticipating thousands in normal usage).

- I'm fuzzy on what the "class description" argument should be for initWithContainerClassDescription. I assume it should be the class description for the object itself; I tried using both the result of classDescriptionForClass (commented out below), and digging out of the suite registry. But I'm guessing based on various samples I have studied.

Any thoughts?

TIA,
Doug K;

- (NSScriptObjectSpecifier *)objectSpecifier
{
NSLog( @"Category: objectSpecifier requested for %@", [self recordDescription] );
// try to specify the category by id
NSScriptObjectSpecifier *containerRef = [[self repository] objectSpecifier];
// NSScriptClassDescription *classDesc = (NSScriptClassDescription *)[NSScriptClassDescription classDescriptionForClass:[Category class]];
NSScriptSuiteRegistry *reg = [NSScriptSuiteRegistry sharedScriptSuiteRegistry];
NSDictionary *classes = [reg classDescriptionsInSuite:@"Prospector"];
NSScriptClassDescription *classDesc = [classes objectForKey:@"Category"];
NSLog( @"...found category description %@", classDesc );
NSNumber *myID = [[NSNumber alloc] initWithLong:[self recordID]];
NSUniqueIDSpecifier *spec = [[NSUniqueIDSpecifier alloc] initWithContainerClassDescription:classDesc
containerSpecifier:containerRef

key:@"recordID"
uniqueID:myID];
return spec;
}
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