Class: ClassOrganizer

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • defaults
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • Compatibility-Squeak
  • accessing
  • change & update
  • changing
  • printing & storing
  • private access

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ClassOrganizer

Package:

stx:libbasic3

Category:

Kernel-Support

Version:

rev: 1.26 date: 2024/02/29 13:37:46

user: cg

file: ClassOrganizer.st directory: libbasic3

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic3

Description:

in contrast to other smalltalks, ST/X does not keep the
method <-> category associations in the class (as organization),
but instead keeps the category as an instance variable of methods.

For compatibility with (fileOut-) files which include a class organization
message, 'aClass organization' returns an instance of this class, which
implements the category change functionality.
Also, some PD code seems to use & define methods for ClassOrganizers 
- having this (somewhat dummy) class around helps to fileIn that code.

Notice, that instances of ClassOrganizer are NOT used in the current ST/X
system; all of this is pure compatibility mimicri.


This is an additional goody class; therefore:

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Class protocol:

 defaultProtocol

 for: aClass

create & return a new instance of myself, to organize aClass

Instance protocol:

 commentStamp
( an extension from the stx:libcompat package )

 addCategory: aCategory

ignored.

Usage example(s):

Number organization addCategory:'foo'.

 addCategory: aCategory before: symbolOrNil

ignored.

 categories

return a collection of my classes method-categorySymbols

Usage example(s):

SmallInteger organization categories

 categoryOfElement: aSelectorSymbol

return the category for the method specified by aSelectorSymbol.
Return nil, if there is no such method.

Usage example(s):

Number organization categoryOfElement:#foo. Object organization categoryOfElement:#==

 classComment

return the classes comment

Usage example(s):

Number organization classComment

 elements

return a collection of my classes selectors

Usage example(s):

SmallInteger organization elements

 listAtCategoryNamed: aCategorySymbol

return a collection of selectors whose methods are categorized
as aCategorySymbol

Usage example(s):

SmallInteger organization listAtCategoryNamed:#arithmetic

 removeCategory: aCategory

remove a categories assignments - dummy here

 update: something with: parameter from: changedObject

(comment from inherited method)
dependent is notified of some change -
Default is to try update:with:

 changeFromString: organizationString

take category<->selector associations from aString, and change
the categories of those methods.
Only required when filing in ST-80 code, which changes the categorization
this way.

Usage example(s):

TestClass organization changeFromString:'( ''category1'' #foo1 #foo2 foo3) ( ''category2'' #bar1 #bar2)'

 classify: aSelector under: aCategory

change the category of the method stored under aSelector
to aCategory.

 printOn: aStream

Number organization printString

 class: aClass

set the class