'allo
Say I have two classes:
class Bloke
attr_reader :name
def sellSoul(aDemon)
aDemon.buySoul(self)
end
end
class Demon
def buySoul(aBloke)
# if aBloke called the method, OK. Else, tell them where to go.
puts(“I bought #{aBloke.name}'s soul!”)
end
end
Tim = Bloke.new
Tim.name = “Tim”
Satan = Demon.new
Tim.sellSoul(Satan)
I would like the buySoul method to work only if the Bloke calling it is
the same instance of Bloke named, but I can’t find any way to determine
what object called a given method. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Cheers
Ben Z. wrote:
Tim.sellSoul(Satan)
I would like the buySoul method to work only if the Bloke calling it is
the same instance of Bloke named, but I can’t find any way to determine
what object called a given method. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Not quite what you’re after, but it has the same effect: make sellSoul
a private method, so that it’s only possible (without #send contortions)
for Tim to call sellSoul on self.
Other than that, I think you’ll be into checking object_ids against
constants at the top execution level, which isn’t particularly useful.
You could pass the binding to buySoul, I guess, but that’s just as
nasty.
Some might argue that you can’t do thi, b/c in reality what you want to
do is flawed conceptually.
Thankyou for the code - but would you explain to me why it’s “flawed
conceptually”? I’m still relatively new to OO thinking - if it’s
improper to have a way of identifying the object that called one of
your methods, I’d like to know why…
Cheers
Ben Z. wrote:
Tim.sellSoul(Satan)
I would like the buySoul method to work only if the Bloke calling it is
the same instance of Bloke named, but I can’t find any way to determine
what object called a given method. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Some might argue that you can’t do thi, b/c in reality what you want to
do is flawed conceptually. Be that as it may, you’re essentially asking
for the Binding.of_caller, a well known extension, but one that is far
from perfect too. Albiet, in your case, and most cases I have ever
considered, a “self_of_caller” would suffice --the whole binding is
generally overkill. In any case, it can be done generally if you pass a
block:
require ‘facet/binding/self’ # see below for this code
class Bloke
attr_reader :name
def sellSoul(aDemon)
aDemon.buySoul{self}
end
end
class Demon
def buySoul(&aBloke)
# if aBloke called the method, OK. Else, tell them where to go.
if aBloke.binding.self == Bloke
puts(“I bought #{aBloke[].name}'s soul!”)
else
puts “You know were to go!”
end
end
end
T.
P.S. binding/self + binding/eval:
class Binding
Returns the self in the binding context.
def self()
@self ||= eval( “self” )
@self
end
Evaluate a Ruby source code string (or block) in the binding
context
def eval( str ) #=’’, &blk )
Kernel.eval( str, self )
end
end