Overriding implementation class members

Follow-up to Implementation Classes Again from codeMonkey.Weblog();

On the way home I thought of a way to override implementation class members in the user class.

class User
  use SomeImpl for IFooBar

  [OverrideImpl(IFooBar)] private SomeMethod() : void
    // specialized code...

class SomeImpl : IFooBar
  public virtual SomeMethod() : void
    // Normal code

The macro can translate this into “real” code by creating a new class inside User that inherits from the implementation class. We override the virtual method and make call to the User method.

The partial expansion then looks like this:

class User
  use SomeImpl_User_Overrides for IFooBar

  private SomeMethod() : void
    // Specialized code

  class SomeImpl_User_Overrides : SomeImpl
    private _user : User
    public this(user : User)
      _user = user

    public override SomeMethod()
      _user.SomeMethod()

So then we use the specialized class as the implementation.

This approach will also work for abstract methods defined in the implementation class that require implementation.

: 14 Mar 2007 15:11 |  Tags: Coding Implementation Classes Nemerle OOP |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem