Re: Programmatically finding an entity's subclasses
Re: Programmatically finding an entity's subclasses
- Subject: Re: Programmatically finding an entity's subclasses
- From: Johnny Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:25:14 -1000
I never met David A. (although I really appreciate his sense of humor) but somehow I thought he was Irish - my mistake.
The latter, an EO of that entity. I have an abstract entity and I want to get a pretty print name for the sub-entities.
On Oct 26, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Chuck Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 2012-10-26, at 12:33 PM, Johnny Miller wrote:
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>> Nothing could be sadder than an Irishman in a dry country. Sounds like some kind of war crime to me.
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> Irish?!!?
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>> Another question: Once I have the EOEntity is there any way I can access a static method or field for that class?
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> For the EOEntity class or an EO of that entity?
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> Chuck
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>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Chuck Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Sounds like too much polyester in the hot sun has started to affect poor David's mind!
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>>> On 2012-10-25, at 6:36 PM, David Avendasora wrote:
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>>>> API Inconsistencies like this drive me crazy!
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>>>> What metaphor are we using? Parent/Child? Superclass/Subclass?
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>>>> Apparently the answer is "Yes".
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>>>> To get the EOEntity that myEntity inherits from you call myEOEntity.parent()
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>>>> Okay, Fine. We're using the Parent/Child metaphor.
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>>>> To get the EOEntities that inherit from myEntity you call myEntity.subEntities().
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>>>> Wait. Whaaa??? WTF. Really? Two sides of one structure and you can't use the same metaphor?
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>>>> I tells ya, it makes me almost want to get up out of my rocking chair and dope-slap someone.
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>>>> But of course any impact that might have would be quickly erased by the simultaneous groveling hero-worship of the people who have made my coding life so easy that mixed metaphors piss me off.
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>>>> Dave
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>>>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Chuck Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> EOEntity.subEntities:
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>>>>> subEntities
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>>>>> public NSArray subEntities()
>>>>> Returns a list of those entities that inherit from the receiver, or an empty array if no entities inherit from the receiver.
>>>>> Returns: An array of the receiver's sub-entities, or an empty array.
>>>>> See Also: EOEntity.addSubEntity(EOEntity child), EOEntity.parentEntity(), EOEntity.removeSubEntity(EOEntity child)
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>>>>> On 2012-10-25, at 5:36 PM, Johnny Miller wrote:
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>>>>>> What's the way to find all the entities that subclass a given entity?
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>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
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>>>>>> Aloha,
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