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Re: NSInvocation


  • Subject: Re: NSInvocation
  • From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:24:16 -0400

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> And lastly, I recommend filing a bug against the documentation in this
>> case. NSInvocation is not really suited for this particular task, and
>> I don't understand why they would recommend it here.
>
> One possible reason is for proxying or otherwise handling unimplemented
> methods dynamically.  There is a well-defined mechanism for what happens if
> you send a message to an object that doesn't directly implement a method for
> that message.  A class can decide to forward the message, or it can do
> something funky in an override of doesNotRecognizeSelector:.  That mechanism
> does kick in for performSelector:… and NSInvocation but doesn't for
> methodForSelector:.

Works fine for me:

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

@interface Foo : NSObject {} @end
@implementation Foo
- (NSMethodSignature *)methodSignatureForSelector:(SEL)sel
{
    NSMethodSignature *sig = [super methodSignatureForSelector:sel];
    if(!sig) sig = [super methodSignatureForSelector:@selector(description)];
    return sig;
}

- (void)forwardInvocation:(NSInvocation *)inv
{
    NSLog(@"%s: %@", __func__, inv);
}

- (void)implemented
{
    NSLog(@"%s", __func__);
}
@end

static void TestSel(SEL sel)
{
    Foo *foo = [[Foo alloc] init];
    [foo methodForSelector:sel](foo, sel);
    [foo release];
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    [NSAutoreleasePool new];
    TestSel(@selector(implemented));
    TestSel(@selector(unimplemented));
    return 0;
}

$ gcc -framework Cocoa test.m
$ ./a.out
2008-09-10 11:23:10.713 a.out[3913:10b] -[Foo implemented]
2008-09-10 11:23:10.739 a.out[3913:10b] -[Foo forwardInvocation:]:
<NSInvocation: 0x110a370>
$

Is there some other case where it would fail?

Mike
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