Re: Alternative KVC accessors
Re: Alternative KVC accessors
- Subject: Re: Alternative KVC accessors
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:32:58 +0000
On 1 Jan 2010, at 21:45, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 1/1/10 11:15 PM, "Mike Abdullah" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Are you saying you want a synthesized -<key> method, and then also write an
>> -is<Key> method?
>
> Sort of... What I'm actually trying to do is write a getter in
> AppleScriptObjectiveC.
>
> When you declare a property in ASObjC, it seems accessors are synthesized
> automatically, as if using @synthesize in ObjectiveC, and you can also write
> your own that will used be instead, as in ObjectiveC.
>
> The problem is that methods are written and implemented as handlers in
> ASObjC, and AS won't allow a property and a handler to have the same name
> (technically, if a variable and handler have the same name, the variable
> refers to the handler). That rules out writing the equivalent of a "normal"
> -<key> getter.
>
> But if I write a getter in -is<Key> or -get<Key> form, in simple testing
> they seem to work fine. is<Key> works with non-booleans, and I wonder
> whether the reference to booleans is purely stylistic.
>
> Anyway, what I'm really asking is whether I'm likely to strike unforeseen
> problems using the equivalent of -is<Key> or -get<Key> instead of -<key>.
This sounds a pretty odd approach, and is also going to give you pretty confusing code to read. Instead, how about synthesising a property of the form:
-primitive<Key>
And then write a getter in -<key> form, so that it internally calls the -primitive<Key> getter?
Mike.
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