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Demonstrate how to make the object respond (sensibly/usefully) to an invocation of a method on it that it does not support through its class definitions.
Demonstrate how to make the object respond (sensibly/usefully) to an invocation of a method on it that it does not support through its class definitions. Note that this is not the same as just invoking a defined method whose name is given dynamically; the method named at the point of invocation must not be defined.


This task is intended only for object systems that use a dynamic dispatch mechanism.
This task is intended only for object systems that use a dynamic dispatch mechanism.

Revision as of 22:55, 3 June 2009

Task
Respond to an unknown method call
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Demonstrate how to make the object respond (sensibly/usefully) to an invocation of a method on it that it does not support through its class definitions. Note that this is not the same as just invoking a defined method whose name is given dynamically; the method named at the point of invocation must not be defined.

This task is intended only for object systems that use a dynamic dispatch mechanism.

Tcl

Works with: Tcl version 8.6

<lang tcl># First create a simple, conventional class and object oo::class create Example {

   method foo {} {
       puts "this is foo"
   }
   method bar {} {
       puts "this is bar"
   }

} Example create example

  1. Modify the object to have a custom ‘unknown method’ interceptor

oo::objdefine example {

   method unknown {name args} {
       puts "tried to handle unknown method \"$name\""
       if {[llength $args]} {
           puts "it had arguments: $args"
       }
   }

}

  1. Show off what we can now do...

example foo; # prints “this is foo” example bar; # prints “this is bar” example grill; # prints “tried to handle unknown method "grill"” example ding dong; # prints “tried to handle unknown method "ding"”

                  # prints “it had arguments: dong”</lang>