Yfactorial ObjectiveResource

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  Deleted User February 5th, 2009 @ 05:39 PM

  • Tag set to “dynamic, kvc, property”
  • Title changed from “add dynamic property support?” to “Dynamic property support”

  Hi,

  I already have code for this from a project I started before ObjectiveResource came about. It automatically infers the properties as they are unserialized and stores them in a hash in the superclass. It also uses KVC to retrieve the properties (as suggested).

  I would be more than happy to merge this feature if you would like to see it included in ObjectiveResource.

  Josh

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  Deleted User February 5th, 2009 @ 05:44 PM

  • Tag changed from “dynamic, kvc, property” to “dynamic, kvc, properties”
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  Joshua Vickery February 6th, 2009 @ 08:46 AM

  Hi Josh (nice name!)

  This ticket was at odds with #9 which moved ObjectiveResource from using a superclass, to implementing all the functionality as a category on NSObject. The downside of using a category is that there is no iVar support and, alas, Objective-C doesn't do "class" variables.

  The only way that I now see to support this ticket would be to use a global or static map of objects to store all the attribute hashes, and I'm not to keen on that approach.

  Do you have any other thoughts?

  As a side note, the reason I wanted dynamic properties is because I almost always use iVar backed nonatomic,retain properties, which means that I need to repeat myself 4 times every time I want a new one.

  @interface Foo {
    NSString *propertyName;
  }
  @property (nonatomic,retain) NSString *propertyName;
  @end
  
  @implementation Foo
  @synthesize propertyName;
  -(void) dealloc {
    [propertyName release];
    [super dealloc];
  }
  @end
  
  

  Dynamic properties mean that I can cut that repetition down to 2, but my ideal solution would be not having to repeat anything. Does that mesh with what your logic?