Re: Make GSObjCMethodNames() more general ?

[David Ayers]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I try to use GSObjCMethodNames() in GSObjCRuntime.h
>  to get both class and instance methods.
>
>  First, the comment in the source code said it will return class methods 
> if the message is a class.
>  But after a short test, it seems not the case.
>  It always return instance methods.

Hmm, I can't confirm that.  My tests show that it returns class methods 
when given a class.  Be aware that the root classes are treated special 
in ObjC in the sense that all instance methods are also class methods.

>  Second, it always return the methods of super-class recursively.
>  Is it possible or worth to make it more general,
>  such as NSArray *GSObjCMethodName(id obj, BOOL recursive)
>  so that user can decide whether to get methods up to super class ?

I don't think that we would want to change that function.  But we have 
similar situation wrt GSGet(Instance/Class)Method(NotInherited) so I 
could imagine a GSObjCMethodNamesNotInherited().  Personally I'd prefer 
to add Instance/Class variants which each take a class because I'm not 
really thrilled about having to create an instance just to be able to 
query the instance method names, but I don't feel strongly about it.

What do others think?

Cheers,
David