Class: BinaryModuleDescriptor (private in ObjectMemory

• Inheritance
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • backward compatibility
  • printing & storing
  • private-accessing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ObjectMemory::BinaryModuleDescriptor

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

System-Support

Owner:

ObjectMemory

Class protocol:

 name: n type: t id: i dynamic: d classNames: c handle: h pathName: p libraryName: l timeStamp: ts

Instance protocol:

 classNames

return the names of the classes contained in that module

 dynamic

return true, if this module was loaded dynamically
(as opposed to a module which was linked into the system right from the start.
Do not confuse this with shared libraries - these may be dynamic or not).

 handle

 handle: something

 id

return the modules internal id; this is (currently) a small number,
with positive values for dynamically added modules.
Modules which were present at startup (both statically linked or shared libraries)
have a negative id (Do not depend on this - use #dynamic instead).

 isSingleMethod

 libraryName

return the name of this library. Typically, this is the libraries
filename without a suffix (such as 'libbasic')

 name

return the modules name - usually, some descriptive text plus the modules
libraryName.

 package

retrieve the modules packageId.
For now, this is constructed, but will be kept in the VM in later
versions.

 pathName

return the modules pathName

 timeStamp

return the modules timeStamp

 type

return the modules type. This is a symbol, such as #classLibrary.

 at: key

backward compatibility access: in previous releases, IdentityDictionaries
were used to hold my information. Allow access via key messages.
This method will vanish - use the proper access protocol.

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 printOn: aStream

 name: n type: t id: i dynamic: d classNames: c handle: h pathName: p libraryName: l timeStamp: ts