Le 24 janv. 09 à 18:51, Antonio Nunes a écrit :

On 24 Jan 2009, at 18:09, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

Or, more specifically, why do you want to make some bit of framework code which currently allocates an instance of A allocate an instance of SubA instead?

Because of, what I assume to be, a bug in PDFClerkThumbnailView which when one drags multiple pages from or within it, puts the pages in a PDFDocument instead of in the subclass of PDFDocument, which is where the pages live. Dragging a single page works as expected and the page is of the correct subclass. Dragging multiple pages leads to errors. I filed a bug report for this a while back, but I really need a safe workaround until the issue is fixed. (Assuming Apple considers it a bug too. I have never received feedback on it.)

This is an excellent demonstration of why category based overrides are rife with danger. The above code is making a boatload of assumptions.

I know. That's why I wrote that I understand it is not the way to go, but yet that it _appears_ to work.

I would use method_exchangeImplementations(), if absolutely positively necessary. It is about the most innocuous of an otherwise noxious encapsulation breaking implementation pattern.

Thanks. I found that a few hours ago and was able to create the exchange. However, writing a correct replacement method is another thing altogether. The following doesn't work:

Early in application startup:
Method originalMethod = class_getClassMethod([PDFDocument class], @selector(alloc)); Method replacedMethod = class_getClassMethod([PDFDocument class], @selector(allocReplacement));
        method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, replacedMethod);

Addition to PDFDocument:
+ (id)allocReplacement
{
        if ([[self class] isEqual:[PDFDocument class]]) {
                        return [ANPDFDocument alloc];
                } else {
                        return [super alloc];
                }
}


First, as it was said, the designated allocation method is allocWithZone and not alloc.

Then, you call alloc in a recursive way in your method. alloc was replaced by your allocReplacement, so calling alloc call allocReplacement, even in you replacement implementation.

see http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/MethodReplacement/listing3.html

Then, alloc is a class method, so self is already the class. No need to do [self class]

It should be

Method originalMethod = class_getClassMethod([PDFDocument class], @selector(allocWithZone:)); Method replacedMethod = class_getClassMethod([PDFDocument class], @selector(allocWithZoneReplacement:));
method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, replacedMethod);

+ (id)allocWithZoneReplacement:(NSZone *)aZone {
        if (self == [PDFDocument class]) {
                return [ANPDFDocument allocWithZoneReplacement:aZone];
        } else {
                return [super allocWithZoneReplacement:aZone];
        }
}


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