Traversing superviews' class instance variables

Ruby
1

I have certain variables that are ‘properties’ and I keep track of them
in a
class instance variable called @fields, and each subclass may have it’s
own
fields. I want to navigate through the hierarchy and go through each
list, is
something like this possible?:

class View
@fields = [:origin]
def View.fields()
super.fields()
@fields
end
attr :origin
end

class Button < View
@fields = [:caption]
attr :caption
end

View.fields() actually finds :cation when I do Button.fields(), but
super does
not work. Or maybe there is another way to do this?

Thanks,
Mike

2

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:58 +0900, Mike A. wrote:

end

It seems to work if you replace View.fields with:

def View.fields
@fields + (superclass.respond_to?(:fields) ? superclass.fields : [])
end

But this seems like a bit of a strange setup to me…

3

Ross B. wrote:

 @fields

not work. Or maybe there is another way to do this?

It seems to work if you replace View.fields with:

def View.fields
@fields + (superclass.respond_to?(:fields) ? superclass.fields : [])
end

But this seems like a bit of a strange setup to me…

Thanks, that works. It is strange, but it’s the best way I see to
classify
instance variables as being ‘public properties’ or not. Here’s an
example of
how it will be used:

class View
@fields = [:origin, :extent]
[…]

def View.fields()
@fields + (superclass != Object ? superclass.fields : [])
end

def View.inherited( subclass )
subclass.class_eval do
@fields = [] # Make subclasses have @fields
end
end
end

class Button < View
@fields = [:action]
[…]
end

puts Button.fields

Have a good one,
Mike