Hi,

You should be able to do it using the method primitiveChangeClassTo: but it not 
recommended to do it. Are you sure that it is the only way to resolve your 
problem?

If you really want to, an example:

Object subclass: #Toto
                slots: { #tata }
                classVariables: {  }
                category: 'Temp'.

Toto subclass: #Titi
                slots: {  }
                classVariables: {  }
                category: 'Temp'.
obj := Toto new.
obj primitiveChangeClassTo: Titi new.

obj has a new class.

However, you cannot add a new instance variable this way but you keep the 
values of the instance.
But nothing avoid you to add an empty instance variable in a superclass that 
only the subclass will use.

I hope that it will help you

Vincent


De : Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] De la part de 
Steven Costiou
Envoyé : mercredi 7 juin 2017 14:54
À : Pharo users users
Objet : [Pharo-users] How to migrate an object to a subclass of its class but 
with new inst vars ?


Hi,

i'm trying to migrate an object from a given class A to a subclass of A with 
new inst vars. Can't get it to work.

I have a class and an instance of it, say:

Object subclass: #A
    instanceVariableNames: ''

|a|

a := A new.

A has no instance variables. Now i create a subclass B of A with a new inst var:

A subclass: #B
    instanceVariableNames: 'x'

I want to do the following:

B adoptInstance: a

It does'nt work, for what i understand it is because the format of the classes 
are different (B has an inst var and A has not).



How can i make the a object become an instance of B (subclass of a's class), 
making a acquiring the new inst var x (and in more complex cases keeping its 
own previous inst vars) ?



Steven.

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