Re: Fun with Primitives
Re: Fun with Primitives
- Subject: Re: Fun with Primitives
- From: Owen McKerrow <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:58:00 +1100
Hi Guys,
Hmmm. The specific thing Im trying to set which is causing the
problem is the batchIndex of a display group.
So the call is
nextPage.takeValueForKeyPath(dictionary.objectForKey(keyName),keyName);
Where keyname is "displayGroup.currentBatchIndex" and the value is
well anything. The value of the batch index is never changed, its
always 1, both directly before and after the above line of code.
Any ideas ?
Owen
On 13/12/2005, at 7:39 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Owen,
Key-value coding takes care of type coercion.
takeValueForKey("myNumber", 1) may call either setMyNumber(Integer
aNumber) or setMyNumber(int anInt).
Your example should work just fine with only one setter method
defined.
Pierre
webobjects-dev-bounces+pierre.bernard=email@hidden wrote
on 12/13/2005 06:00:49 AM:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a method that loops over a NSMutableDictionary by keyword,
and
> then uses that keyword as a key value path to set the value of an
> object for another page to the value stored in the dictionary.
>
> For example we have the key value pair in the dictionary of
> "personName", "Bob".
> So I set the value in the next page with the following call
>
> nextPage.takeValueForKeyPath(dictionary.objectForKey
(keyName),keyName);
>
> So in this case we set the valueForKeyPath "personName" on the next
> page to the value found in the dictionary which matches the same
key,
> in this case that value would be Bob.
>
> However this breaks down when I have to deal with primitives. A
> NSMutableDictionary won't take a primitive ( e.g. an int) as a
> possible object, so we cast it to an Integer. However when you then
> try and assign this to the int on the next page it of course doesn't
> work as the int can't be assigned to an Integer.
>
> So we could check what class type we have for
dictionary.objectForKey
> (keyName) and if its an Integer, use .intValue(), but that means ALL
> Integers would be cast back and this is not what we would want.
>
> Taking that one step further you can check if
> nextPage.valueForKeyPath(keyName).getClass().isInstance
> (Integer.TYPE), that is checking if you are about to set an int or
> not on the nextPage and if so cast the object to an Integer
( Integer
> value = (Integer) dictionary.objectForKey(keyName)) and then
> use .intValue() for the ones which pass this test However this also
> breaks as nextPage.takeValueForKeyPath() needs an Object not a
> primitive.
>
> I know I could just write a method that takes an Integer and
assign's
> it to the int :
>
> setNumber (Integer newNum) {
> setNumber(newNum.intValue());
> }
>
> But I was hoping to make the method generic enough that it could
just
> do it, otherwise I would have to write this extra method every-
time I
> wanted to use it ( which may be the only way to go ).
>
> But before I headed down this path I thought I would ask and see if
> anyone has any ideas or suggestions ?
>
> Owen McKerrow
> WebMaster, emlab
> http://emlab.uow.edu.au
>
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