Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Reusing code in ObjC mappings

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On 14 nov 2003, at 17:46, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> I've noticed that it's rather frequent for both a class and instance 
> method to have a near identical signature and a near identical 
> mapping.. for example, initWithBytes:length: vs dataWithBytes:length:
>
> The only difference is really in one line of code.. the class method 
> will say:
>         PyObjC_InitSuperCls(&super,
>             PyObjCSelector_GetClass(method),
>             PyObjCClass_GetClass(self));
>
> and the instance method will say:
>         PyObjC_InitSuper(&super,
>             PyObjCSelector_GetClass(method),
>             PyObjCObject_GetObject(self));
>
> There has to be a better way than this, so that we don't have all this 
> cut+paste code to maintain.  Ideas?

good point.

For this specific example we can detect ``method`` is a class method or 
not and call the right InitSuper variant.

The IMP variant of that code is probably completely the same already!

Ronald