/** Implementation of NSProtocolChecker for GNUStep Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Original by: Mike Kienenberger Date: Jun 1998 Written: Richard Frith-Macdonald Date: April 2004 This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 31 Milk Street #960789 Boston, MA 02196 USA. NSProtocolChecker class reference $Date$ $Revision$ */ #import "common.h" #define EXPOSE_NSProtocolChecker_IVARS 1 #import "Foundation/NSProtocolChecker.h" #import "Foundation/NSException.h" #import "Foundation/NSInvocation.h" #import "Foundation/NSMethodSignature.h" #include /** * The NSProtocolChecker and NSProxy classes provide message filtering and * forwarding capabilities. If you wish to ensure at runtime that a given * object will only be sent messages in a certain protocol, you create an * NSProtocolChecker instance with the protocol and the object as * arguments- id versatileObject = [[ClassWithManyMethods alloc] init]; id narrowObject = [NSProtocolChecker protocolCheckerWithTarget: versatileObject protocol: @protocol(SomeSpecificProtocol)]; return narrowObject; * This is often used in conjunction with distributed objects to expose only a * subset of an objects methods to remote processes */ @implementation NSProtocolChecker /** * Allocates and initializes an NSProtocolChecker instance by calling * -initWithTarget:protocol:
* Autoreleases and returns the new instance. */ + (id) protocolCheckerWithTarget: (NSObject*)anObject protocol: (Protocol*)aProtocol { return AUTORELEASE([[NSProtocolChecker alloc] initWithTarget: anObject protocol: aProtocol]); } - (void) dealloc { DESTROY(_myTarget); [super dealloc]; } - (const char *) _protocolTypeForSelector: (SEL)aSel { struct objc_method_description desc; desc = GSProtocolGetMethodDescriptionRecursive(_myProtocol, aSel, YES, YES); if (desc.name == NULL && desc.types == NULL) { desc = GSProtocolGetMethodDescriptionRecursive(_myProtocol, aSel, YES, NO); } return desc.types; } /** * Forwards any message to the delegate if the method is declared in * the checker's protocol; otherwise raises an * NSInvalidArgumentException. */ - (void) forwardInvocation: (NSInvocation*)anInvocation { const char *type; if ([self _protocolTypeForSelector: [anInvocation selector]] == NULL) { if (GSObjCIsInstance(_myTarget)) { [NSException raise: NSInvalidArgumentException format: @"<%s -%@> not declared", protocol_getName(_myProtocol), NSStringFromSelector([anInvocation selector])]; } else { [NSException raise: NSInvalidArgumentException format: @"<%s +%@> not declared", protocol_getName(_myProtocol), NSStringFromSelector([anInvocation selector])]; } } [anInvocation invokeWithTarget: _myTarget]; /* * If the method returns 'self' (ie the target object) replace the * returned value with the protocol checker. */ type = [[anInvocation methodSignature] methodReturnType]; if (GSSelectorTypesMatch(type, @encode(id))) { id buf; [anInvocation getReturnValue: &buf]; if (buf == _myTarget) { buf = self; [anInvocation setReturnValue: &buf]; } } } - (id) init { self = [self initWithTarget: nil protocol: nil]; return self; } /** * Initializes a newly allocated NSProtocolChecker instance that will * forward any messages in the aProtocol protocol to anObject, its * delegate. Thus, the checker can be vended in lieu of anObject to * restrict the messages that can be sent to anObject. If any method * in the protocol returns anObject, the checker will replace the returned * value with itself rather than the target object.
* Returns the new instance. */ - (id) initWithTarget: (NSObject*)anObject protocol: (Protocol*)aProtocol { _myProtocol = aProtocol; ASSIGN(_myTarget, anObject); return self; } - (NSMethodSignature*) methodSignatureForSelector: (SEL)aSelector { if (_myProtocol != nil) { const char *types = [self _protocolTypeForSelector: aSelector]; if (types == NULL) { return nil; } return [NSMethodSignature signatureWithObjCTypes: types]; } return [super methodSignatureForSelector: aSelector]; } /** * Returns the protocol object the checker uses to verify whether a * given message should be forwarded to its delegate. */ - (Protocol*) protocol { return _myProtocol; } /** * Returns the target of the NSProtocolChecker. */ - (NSObject*) target { return _myTarget; } @end