From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-15T10:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialize a subclass inside a namespace

On 10/14/06, J2M <james2mccarthy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a namespace Foo and a class Bas and a class Bar. I am adding
> classes Bas & Bar are both inside the namespace Foo.
>
> module Foo
>   class Bas
>   .
>   end
>
>   class Bar
>   .
>   end
> end
>
> I have some dynamically added classes that are subclasses of Bar, but I
> want them to be in a namespace under Foo::Bas e.g. Foo::Bas::ThisClass
> & Foo::Bar::ThatClass
...

>
> This all works, but I would like to include some code that runs in the
> context of ThisClass but before the contents of
> file_name_where_this_class_is_defined, but the catch is I cannot assume
> the names of the classes being loaded from the file, therefore I am
> looking for a callback that is run in context of ThisClass as soon as
> ThisClass is defined.

I don't see a callback when a class (or any constant for that matter)
is added to a module.

On the other hand, can you do what you want by overriding
Foo::Bar.inherited ?  At least you can tell when a subclass has been
created.


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Rick DeNatale

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