Re: Detecting Initialization
Re: Detecting Initialization
- Subject: Re: Detecting Initialization
- From: "David H. Silber" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:48:36 -0500
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:39:21AM +1100, Graham Cox wrote:
>
> On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:06 am, David H. Silber wrote:
>
> >Is there some means of detecting if an instance has been initialized?
> >
> >I'm thinking not. Apple's "NSObject Class Reference" says "The init
> >method defined in the NSObject class does no initialization", and
> >googling around on the topic has not produced any means of doing
> >so. I
> >ask here in case someone has some knowledge I have not been able to
> >find. Even a definitive "No" would help, as I could stop searching
> >for
> >an answer which doesn't exist.
>
> The answer is no, but in order to comply with Cocoa's non-optional
> rule on this, if an instance exists, it's initialised. Otherwise
> you've made a grave error.
>
> WAYTTD?
I was hoping to be able to write a unit test which would confirm that an
object had been properly initialized.
Thanks,
David
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David H. Silber
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