From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T01:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: reliable way of finding Objects Class?

Hi,

From: <walter@mwsewall.com>
> 
> My problem is in a Persistence Framework that I have, and with 
> dynamically generated classes from a database schema ( and in a 
> separate but similar issue with dynamically created classes from a 
> resultSet).
> 
> I need to find the objects class to get the correct database mapping, 
> but the objects are (in this case) dynamically created from a 
> database schema, and several of those overide class.
> 
> I was hoping to be able to find an objects class from a different 
> object, perhaps Class.  Something like Class.class(obj), that way I 
> would not have to worry about naming clashes.

How about maybe aliasing the 'class' method to something
you can presume nothing could ever clash with?

Silly example:

class Object
  alias no_way_in_doodely_heckfire_to_have_name_clash_with_class class
end

puts 2.no_way_in_doodely_heckfire_to_have_name_clash_with_class
=> Fixnum

?


Regards,

Bill