From: mathieu.jobin@... Date: 2019-12-23T14:29:25+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:96433] [Ruby master Feature#12655] accessing a method visibility Issue #12655 has been updated by mathieujobin (Mathieu Jobin). mri/2.x.0/internal.h:1363:11: error: conflicting types for ���rb_st_copy��� 1363 | st_table *rb_st_copy(VALUE obj, struct st_table *orig_tbl); looks like this has changed in ruby 2.7 we would have appreciated the public methods from nobu to be merged in... ---------------------------------------- Feature #12655: accessing a method visibility https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12655#change-83355 * Author: mathieujobin (Mathieu Jobin) * Status: Feedback * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Hello, I took on the task to make the looksee gem work with recent ruby 2.3 and 2.4 unfortunately, some feature were not directly accessible in ruby, so a C extension was made including some of ruby internals. for ruby 2.2 support, internal.h and method.h was included. for ruby 2.3, I found I needed id_table.h at least. but I did not fully succeeded making it work for 2.3 on a short email thread with koichi san, he suggested it would be better to request ruby to add the necessary public interface to ruby, so looksee does not need internals. looksee creates these new methods from ruby internals ```C rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_superclass", Looksee_internal_superclass, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_class", Looksee_internal_class, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_public_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_public_instance_methods, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_protected_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_protected_instance_methods, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_private_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_private_instance_methods, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_undefined_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_undefined_instance_methods, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "included_class?", Looksee_included_class_p, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "singleton_class?", Looksee_singleton_class_p, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "singleton_instance", Looksee_singleton_instance, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "real_module", Looksee_real_module, 1); rb_define_method(mMRI, "module_name", Looksee_module_name, 1); ``` it uses the following macros to find the method visibility and if it has been redefined ```C UNDEFINED_METHOD_ENTRY_P(me) METHOD_ENTRY_VISI(me) ``` Ideally, a ruby method that would return its visibility, should return one of the following value ```ruby [:public, :protected, :private, :undefined, :overridden] ``` we are using other ruby macros to find where the method is define, which module or class. ```C RCLASS_SUPER(internal_class) CLASS_OF(object) RCLASS_M_TBL(klass) SPECIAL_CONST_P(object) BUILTIN_TYPE(object) FL_TEST(singleton_class, FL_SINGLETON) RCLASS_IV_TBL(singleton_class) RBASIC(module_or_included_class)->klass ``` that is mostly it you can see what I have tried for ruby 2.3 https://github.com/oggy/looksee/pull/36/files#diff-d5ef4b0cfbd5a6712f37dfa7ffbe2130 I'm unable to use `rb_id_table_foreach` which seems like I would need to import too much of ruby code inside the extension... which I would prefer not including more C into this gem So I am trying to extract an `st_table` from the `struct rb_id_table*` but I am getting a deferencing incomplete type error. please help. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: