Reflection [Pyobjc-dev] Altered classes

[Steven D. M. <sd...@mi...>]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:

> Furthermore, I can't seem to get it to want to list all of NSBundle's
> methods, so I'm not sure I'm asking for the right thing.

dir(runtime.NSBundle) only shows:
	['Class', 'isClass', 'isInstance']

it doesn't show the class methods as it would for a Python Class.

The pyobjc runtime doesn't keep a list of methods, but, after
unmangling the python name to objc, it tests that the object
respondsToSelector:

Deirdre -- you might want to look at the section on proxies in
the objective-C PDF book in the Mac Developer docs to get an
idea about what's going on in the bridge and why.

I posted some notions earlier about adding more reflective abilities
to pyobjc.

www.neodata-inc.com has a class introspector app which I also
built as a pyobjc loadable bundle, so you can get info about
a classes methods. But this is something, which if there is a
grand rewrite, ought to be builtin to the runtime, so they
give the same sort of reflection info that Python classes give.


-- Steve Majewski