Just be careful, that privateState thing looks like a Moose only Famix feature. It't not available in plain Pharo objects :)
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:09 AM, Alidra Abdelghani via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alidra Abdelghani <alidran...@yahoo.fr> > To: Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> > Cc: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 01:09:06 +0100 > Subject: Re: Package extension. Adding instance variables to classes > Hi Pavel, > > Thank you for your answer. > I actually didn’t know about this mechanism. > I think it is will do the job :) > I have probably to rewrite some parts pf my code to access my variables > through privateState. no? > > > Thanks again > Abdelghani > > On 07 May 2018, at 13:15, pharo-users-requ...@lists.pharo.org wrote: > > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:43:56 +0200 > From: Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Package extension. Adding instance > variables to classes > Message-ID: > <CAHN2FzeMiBL4Y8asJ0XCjS2AQdxycoN+pbc+Hsd=trmnmui...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 2018-05-07 12:25 GMT+02:00 Alidra Abdelghani via Pharo-users < > pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>: > > > > ---------- P?eposlan? zpr?va ---------- > From: Alidra Abdelghani <alidran...@yahoo.fr> > To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 11:25:49 +0100 > Subject: Package extension. Adding instance variables to classes > Hi, > > I am working on a package named ClassNamesAnalyzer and I need to add code > to third party classes in other packages (for instance the FAMIX-Core > package). > ?Extending? third party classes with methods is easy; I just need to > categorise my methods under the *ClassNamesAnalyzer protocole so that > loading my package will load them in the image. > However, if I want to add instance variables to theses classes, they are > not there when I load the package in a new image. > > *So my question is* : is there a way to include instance variables > addition to other packages in my package? > > > Currently not, you should use privateState > > > *Another question is* : is it good practice to add instance variables to > classes in third party packages and is there a way to avoid it (because I > am not very confortable with that idea)? > > > It is not, see FAMIXContainerEntity>>#definedAnnotationTypes how this > issue > is currently being solved using the privateState. > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > > > Thanks in advance, > Abdelghani > > > > > -- Guille Polito Research Engineer Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille CRIStAL - UMR 9189 French National Center for Scientific Research - *http://www.cnrs.fr <http://www.cnrs.fr>* *Web:* *http://guillep.github.io* <http://guillep.github.io> *Phone: *+33 06 52 70 66 13
