Re: distant object introspection doesn't work

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 04:05 PM, Benjamin S Um wrote:

> I am passing an NSMutableDictionary as an argument to an NSProxy:
>
> myProxy=[myConnection rootProxy];
> [myProxy someMessage:someArgument];
>
> someArgument is an NSMutableDictionary and when I try to use 
> introspection
> to determine the classes of keyed objects within the dictionary I have
> problems using the return value from isKindOfClass for a conditional
> statement:
>
> if ([[someArguement objectForKey:@"myNSArray"] isKindOfClass:[NSArray
> class]) .....;
>
> It seems that some objects keyed in the dictionary are being represented
> as a "distant object". Does introspection not work with distant objects.
> The following statement outputs something like {Distant Object 12213123}
>
> NSLog([[someArgument objectForKey:@"myNSArray"] description]);
>
> thanks,
> ben

Thanks ... this should be fixed in CVS now.

At the time when NSProxy was implemented, the behavior of many methods 
was
undocumented.  Now the MacOS-X documentation covers more methods, and 
makes
it clear that -isKindOfClass: should be forwarded to the remote object 
(though
-class apparently should not).

Sorry it took a while, but I wanted to document NSProxy and correct the
regression tests too.