Doesn’t [self class] do this? The method is within whatever self is, so it
seems appropriate that [self class]
would provide what you want.
- Jack
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:41 AM, BareFeetWare <list.develo...@barefeetware.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> How can I get the class of a method, at runtime?
>
> I can get the name of the class methods via:
>
> Method *methods =
> class_copyMethodList(objc_getMetaClass([NSStringFromClass([self class])
> UTF8String]), &methodCount);
> for (int i = 0; i < methodCount; i++) {
> Method method = methods[i];
> NSString *methodName = NSStringFromSelector(method_getName(method));
>
>
> And I can get the "returnType" via:
>
> char *returnType = method_copyReturnType(method);
> NSLog(@"The return type is %s", returnType);
>
>
> However, the returnType is just a char that is set to "@" for all classes. I
> want to know which class is returned.
>
> References:
>
> Apple's documentation on the Objective C runtime library:
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ObjCRuntimeRef/index.html
>
> This article points to some private methods in NSObject that will return the
> full syntax of the method header, but is as clueless as I am as to how they
> get the class:
> http://bou.io/ExtendedTypeInfoInObjC.html
>
> Any introspective answers out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> Tom Brodhurst-Hill
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