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/**Interface for NSObject for GNUStep
Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Andrew Kachites McCallum <mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 1995
This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
AutogsdocSource: NSObject.m
*/
#ifndef __NSObject_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#define __NSObject_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#import "NSObjCRuntime.h"
#import <objc/objc.h>
#import "NSZone.h"
#ifdef GS_WITH_GC
#undef GS_WITH_GC
#endif
#define GS_WITH_GC 0
#import "../GNUstepBase/GNUstep.h"
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
@class NSArchiver;
@class NSArray;
@class NSCoder;
@class NSDictionary;
@class NSPortCoder;
@class NSMethodSignature;
@class NSMutableString;
@class NSRecursiveLock;
@class NSString;
@class NSInvocation;
@class Protocol;
/**
* The NSObject protocol describes a minimal set of methods that all
* objects are expected to support. You should be able to send any
* of the messages listed in this protocol to an object, and be safe
* in assuming that the receiver can handle it.
*/
@protocol NSObject
/**
* Returns the class of the receiver. If the receiver is a proxy, then this
* may return the class of the proxy target. Use -isProxy to determine whether
* the receiver is a proxy. If you wish to find the real class of the
* receiver, ignoring proxies, then use object_getClass().
*/
- (Class) class;
/**
* Returns the superclass of receiver's class. If the receiver is a proxy,
* then this may return the class of the proxy target. Use -isProxy to
* determine whether the receiver is a proxy. If you wish to find the real
* superclass of the receiver's class, ignoring proxies, then use
* class_getSuperclass(object_getClass()).
*/
- (Class) superclass;
/**
* Returns whether the receiver is equal to the argument. Defining equality is
* complex, so be careful when implementing this method. Collections such as
* NSSet depend on the behaviour of this method. In particular, this method
* must be commutative, so for any objects a and b:
*
* [a isEqual: b] == [b isEqual: a]
*
* This means that you must be very careful when returning YES if the argument
* is of another class. For example, if you define a number class that returns
* YES if the argument is a string representation of the number, then this will
* break because the string will not recognise your object as being equal to
* itself.
*
* If two objects are equal, then they must have the same hash value, however
* equal hash values do not imply equality.
*/
- (BOOL) isEqual: (id)anObject;
/**
* Returns YES if the receiver is an instance of the class, an instance of the
* subclass, or (in the case of proxies), an instance of something that can be
* treated as an instance of the class.
*/
- (BOOL) isKindOfClass: (Class)aClass;
/**
* Returns YES if the receiver is an instance of the class or (in the case of
* proxies), an instance of something that can be treated as an instance of the
* class.
*
* Calling this method is rarely the correct thing to do. In most cases, a
* subclass can be substituted for a superclass, so you should never need to
* check that an object is really an instance of a specific class and not a
* subclass.
*/
- (BOOL) isMemberOfClass: (Class)aClass;
/**
* Returns YES if the receiver is a proxy, NO otherwise. The default
* implementation of this method in NSObject returns NO, while the
* implementation in NSProxy returns YES.
*/
- (BOOL) isProxy;
/**
* Returns a hash value for the object. All objects that are equal *MUST*
* return the same hash value. For efficient storage in sets, or as keys in
* dictionaries, different objects should return hashes spread evenly over the
* range of an integer.
*
* An object may not return different values from this method after being
* stored in a collection. This typically means that ether the hash value must
* be constant after the object's creation, or that the object may not be
* modified while stored in an unordered collection.
*/
- (NSUInteger) hash;
/**
* Returns the receiver. In a proxy, this may (but is not required to) return
* the proxied object.
*/
- (id) self;
/**
* Performs the specified selector. The selector must correspond to a method
* that takes no arguments.
*/
- (id) performSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
/**
* Performs the specified selector, with the object as the argument. This
* method does not perform any automatic unboxing, so the selector must
* correspond to a method that takes one object argument.
*/
- (id) performSelector: (SEL)aSelector
withObject: (id)anObject;
/**
* Performs the specified selector, with the objects as the arguments. This
* method does not perform any automatic unboxing, so the selector must
* correspond to a method that takes two object arguments.
*/
- (id) performSelector: (SEL)aSelector
withObject: (id)object1
withObject: (id)object2;
/**
* Returns YES if the object can respond to messages with the specified
* selector. The default implementation in NSObject returns YES if the
* receiver has a method corresponding to the method, but other classes may
* return YES if they can respond to a selector using one of the various
* forwarding mechanisms.
*/
- (BOOL) respondsToSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
/**
* Returns YES if the receiver conforms to the specified protocol.
*/
- (BOOL) conformsToProtocol: (Protocol*)aProtocol;
/**
* Increments the reference count of the object and returns the receiver. In
* garbage collected mode, this method does nothing. In automated reference
* counting mode, you may neither implement this method nor call it directly.
*/
- (id) retain NS_AUTOMATED_REFCOUNT_UNAVAILABLE;
/**
* Decrements the reference count of the object and destroys if it there are no
* remaining references. In garbage collected mode, this method does nothing.
* In automated reference counting mode, you may neither implement this method
* nor call it directly.
*/
- (oneway void) release NS_AUTOMATED_REFCOUNT_UNAVAILABLE;
/**
* Performs a deferred -release operation. The object's reference count is
* decremented at the end of the scope of the current autorelease pool,
* identified either by a -drain message sent to the current NSAutoreleasePool
* instance, or in more recent versions of Objective-C by the end of an
* @autorelease_pool scope.
*
* In garbage collected mode, this method does nothing. In automated reference
* counting mode, you may neither implement this method nor call it directly.
*/
- (id) autorelease NS_AUTOMATED_REFCOUNT_UNAVAILABLE;
/**
* Returns the current retain count of an object. This does not include the
* result of any pending autorelease operations.
*
* Code that relies on this method returning a sane value is broken. For
* singletons, it may return NSUIntegerMax. Even when it is tracking a retain
* count, it will not include on-stack pointers in manual retain/release mode,
* pointers marked as __unsafe_unretain or __weak in ARC mode, or pending
* autorelease operations. Its value is therefore largely meaningless. It can
* occasionally be useful for debugging.
*/
- (NSUInteger) retainCount NS_AUTOMATED_REFCOUNT_UNAVAILABLE;
/**
* Returns the description of the object. This is used by the %@ format
* specifier in strings.
*/
- (NSString*) description;
/**
* Returns the zone of the object.
*/
- (NSZone*) zone NS_AUTOMATED_REFCOUNT_UNAVAILABLE;
@end
/**
* This protocol must be adopted by any class wishing to support copying -
* ie where instances of the class should be able to create new instances
* which are copies of the original and, where a class has mutable and
* immutable versions, where the copies are immutable.
*/
@protocol NSCopying
/**
* Called by [NSObject-copy] passing NSDefaultMallocZone() as zone.<br />
* This method returns a copy of the receiver and, where the receiver is a
* mutable variant of a class which has an immutable partner class, the
* object returned is an instance of that immutable class.<br />
* The new object is <em>not</em> autoreleased, and is considered to be
* 'owned' by the calling code ... which is therefore responsible for
* releasing it.<br />
* In the case where the receiver is an instance of a container class,
* it is undefined whether contained objects are merely retained in the
* new copy, or are themselves copied, or whether some other mechanism
* entirely is used.
*/
- (id) copyWithZone: (NSZone*)zone;
@end
/**
* This protocol must be adopted by any class wishing to support
* mutable copying - ie where instances of the class should be able
* to create mutable copies of themselves.
*/
@protocol NSMutableCopying
/**
* Called by [NSObject-mutableCopy] passing NSDefaultMallocZone() as zone.<br />
* This method returns a copy of the receiver and, where the receiver is an
* immutable variant of a class which has a mutable partner class, the
* object returned is an instance of that mutable class.
* The new object is <em>not</em> autoreleased, and is considered to be
* 'owned' by the calling code ... which is therefore responsible for
* releasing it.<br />
* In the case where the receiver is an instance of a container class,
* it is undefined whether contained objects are merely retained in the
* new copy, or are themselves copied, or whether some other mechanism
* entirely is used.
*/
- (id) mutableCopyWithZone: (NSZone*)zone;
@end
/**
* This protocol must be adopted by any class wishing to support
* saving and restoring instances to an archive, or copying them
* to remote processes via the Distributed Objects mechanism.
*/
@protocol NSCoding
/**
* Called when it is time for receiver to be serialized for writing to an
* archive or network connection. Receiver should record all of its instance
* variables using methods on aCoder. See documentation for [NSCoder],
* [NSArchiver], [NSKeyedArchiver], and/or [NSPortCoder] for more information.
*/
- (void) encodeWithCoder: (NSCoder*)aCoder;
/**
* Called on a freshly allocated receiver when it is time to reconstitute from
* serialized bytes in an archive or from a network connection. Receiver
* should load all of its instance variables using methods on aCoder. See
* documentation for [NSCoder], [NSUnarchiver], [NSKeyedUnarchiver], and/or
* [NSPortCoder] for more information.
*/
- (id) initWithCoder: (NSCoder*)aDecoder;
@end
@protocol NSSecureCoding <NSCoding>
+ (BOOL)supportsSecureCoding;
@end
GS_ROOT_CLASS @interface NSObject <NSObject>
{
/**
* Points to instance's class. Used by runtime to access method
* implementations, etc.. Set in +alloc, Unlike other instance variables,
* which are cleared there.
*/
Class isa;
}
#if OS_API_VERSION(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5, GS_API_LATEST)
/** On a system which performs garbage collection, you should implement
* this method to execute code when the receiver is collected.<br />
* You must not call this method yourself (except when a subclass
* calls the superclass method within its own implementation).
*/
- (void) finalize;
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_MACOSX, GS_API_LATEST)
- (NSString*) className;
#endif
+ (id) allocWithZone: (NSZone*)z;
+ (id) alloc;
+ (Class) class;
/**
* This method is automatically invoked on any class which implements it
* when the class is loaded into the runtime.<br />
* It is also invoked on any category where the method is implemented
* when that category is loaded into the runtime.<br />
* The +load method is called directly by the runtime and you should never
* send a +load message to a class yourself.<br />
* This method is called <em>before</em> the +initialize message is sent
* to the class, so you cannot depend on class initialisation having been
* performed, or upon other classes existing (apart from superclasses of
* the receiver, since +load is called on superclasses before it is called
* on their subclasses).<br />
* As a gross generalisation, it is safe to use C code, including
* most ObjectiveC runtime functions within +load, but attempting to send
* messages to ObjectiveC objects is likely to fail.<br />
* In GNUstep, this method is implemented for NSObject to perform some
* initialisation for the base library.<br />
* If you implement +load for a class, don't call [super load] in your
* implementation.
*/
+ (void) load;
/**
* This message is automatically sent to a class by the runtime. It is
* sent once for each class, just before the class is used for the first
* time (excluding any automatic call to +load by the runtime).<br />
* The message is sent in a thread-safe manner ... other threads may not
* call methods of the class until +initialize has finished executing.<br />
* If the class has a superclass, its implementation of +initialize is
* called first.<br />
* If the class does not implement +initialize then the implementation
* in the closest superclass may be called. This means that +initialize may
* be called more than once, and the recommended way to handle this by
* using the
* <code>
* if (self == [classname class])
* </code>
* conditional to check whether the method is being called for a subclass.<br />
* You should never call +initialize yourself ... let the runtime do it.<br />
* You can implement +initialize in your own class if you need to.
* NSObject's implementation handles essential root object and base
* library initialization.<br />
* It should be safe to call [super initialize] in your implementation
* of +initialize.
*/
+ (void) initialize;
+ (IMP) instanceMethodForSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
+ (NSMethodSignature*) instanceMethodSignatureForSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
+ (BOOL) instancesRespondToSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
+ (BOOL) isSubclassOfClass: (Class)aClass;
+ (id) new;
+ (void) poseAsClass: (Class)aClassObject;
+ (id) setVersion: (NSInteger)aVersion;
+ (NSInteger) version;
- (id) awakeAfterUsingCoder: (NSCoder*)aDecoder;
- (Class) classForArchiver;
- (Class) classForCoder;
- (id) copy;
- (void) dealloc;
- (void) doesNotRecognizeSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
- (void) forwardInvocation: (NSInvocation*)anInvocation;
- (id) init;
- (IMP) methodForSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
- (NSMethodSignature*) methodSignatureForSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
- (id) mutableCopy;
- (id) replacementObjectForArchiver: (NSArchiver*)anArchiver;
- (id) replacementObjectForCoder: (NSCoder*)anEncoder;
- (Class) superclass;
#if OS_API_VERSION(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5, GS_API_LATEST)
/**
* This method will be called when attempting to send a message a class that
* does not understand it. The class may install a new method for the given
* selector and return YES, otherwise it should return NO.
*
* Note: This method is only reliable when using the GNUstep runtime. If you
* require compatibility with the GCC runtime, you must also implement
* -forwardInvocation: with equivalent semantics. This will be considerably
* slower, but more portable.
*/
+ (BOOL) resolveClassMethod: (SEL)name;
/**
* This method will be called when attempting to send a message an instance
* that does not understand it. The class may install a new method for the
* given selector and return YES, otherwise it should return NO.
*
* Note: This method is only reliable when using the GNUstep runtime. If you
* require compatibility with the GCC runtime, you must also implement
* -forwardInvocation: with equivalent semantics. This will be considerably
* slower, but more portable.
*/
+ (BOOL) resolveInstanceMethod: (SEL)name;
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6, GS_API_LATEST)
/**
* Returns an auto-accessing proxy for the given object. This proxy sends a
* -beginContentAccess message to the receiver when it is created and an
* -endContentAccess message when it is destroyed. This prevents an object
* that implements the NSDiscardableContent protocol from having its contents
* discarded for as long as the proxy exists.
*
* On systems using the GNUstep runtime, messages send to the proxy will be
* slightly slower than direct messages. With the GCC runtime, they will be
* approximately two orders of magnitude slower. The GNUstep runtime,
* therefore, is strongly recommended for code calling this method.
*/
- (id) autoContentAccessingProxy;
/**
* If an object does not understand a message, it may delegate it to another
* object. Returning nil indicates that forwarding should not take place. The
* default implementation of this returns nil, but care should be taken when
* subclassing NSObject subclasses and overriding this method that
* the superclass implementation is called if returning nil.
*
* Note: This method is only reliable when using the GNUstep runtime and code
* compiled with clang. If you require compatibility with GCC and the GCC
* runtime, you must also implement -forwardInvocation: with equivalent
* semantics. This will be considerably slower, but more portable.
*/
- (id) forwardingTargetForSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
#endif
@end
/**
* Used to allocate memory to hold an object, and initialise the
* class of the object to be aClass etc. The allocated memory will
* be extraBytes larger than the space actually needed to hold the
* instance variables of the object.<br />
* This function is used by the [NSObject+allocWithZone:] method.
*/
GS_EXPORT id
NSAllocateObject(Class aClass, NSUInteger extraBytes, NSZone *zone);
/**
* Used to release the memory used by an object.<br />
* This function is used by the [NSObject-dealloc] method.
*/
GS_EXPORT void
NSDeallocateObject(id anObject);
/**
* Used to copy anObject. This makes a bitwise copy of anObject to
* memory allocated from zone. The allocated memory will be extraBytes
* longer than that necessary to actually store the instance variables
* of the copied object.<br />
*/
GS_EXPORT NSObject *
NSCopyObject(NSObject *anObject, NSUInteger extraBytes, NSZone *zone);
/**
* Returns a flag to indicate whether anObject should be retained or
* copied in order to make a copy in the specified zone.<br />
* Basically, this tests to see if anObject was allocated from
* requestedZone and returns YES if it was.
*/
GS_EXPORT BOOL
NSShouldRetainWithZone(NSObject *anObject, NSZone *requestedZone);
GS_EXPORT BOOL
NSDecrementExtraRefCountWasZero(id anObject);
GS_EXPORT NSUInteger
NSExtraRefCount(id anObject);
GS_EXPORT void
NSIncrementExtraRefCount(id anObject);
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE, GS_API_NONE)
/** Global lock to be used by classes when operating on any global
data that invoke other methods which also access global; thus,
creating the potential for deadlock. */
GS_EXPORT NSRecursiveLock *gnustep_global_lock;
@interface NSObject (NEXTSTEP)
- (id) error:(const char *)aString, ...;
/* - (const char *) name;
Removed because OpenStep has -(NSString*)name; */
@end
#if GS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE, 011700)
@interface NSObject (GNUstep)
+ (void) enableDoubleReleaseCheck: (BOOL)enable;
@end
#endif
#endif
#import "NSDate.h"
/**
* Declares some methods for sending messages to self after a fixed delay.
* (These methods <em>are</em> in OpenStep and OS X.)
*/
@interface NSObject (TimedPerformers)
/**
* Cancels any perform operations set up for the specified target
* in the current run loop.
*/
+ (void) cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget: (id)obj;
/**
* Cancels any perform operations set up for the specified target
* in the current loop, but only if the value of aSelector and argument
* with which the performs were set up match those supplied.<br />
* Matching of the argument may be either by pointer equality or by
* use of the [NSObject-isEqual:] method.
*/
+ (void) cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget: (id)obj
selector: (SEL)s
object: (id)arg;
/**
* Sets given message to be sent to this instance after given delay,
* in any run loop mode. See [NSRunLoop].
*/
- (void) performSelector: (SEL)s
withObject: (id)arg
afterDelay: (NSTimeInterval)seconds;
/**
* Sets given message to be sent to this instance after given delay,
* in given run loop modes. See [NSRunLoop].
*/
- (void) performSelector: (SEL)s
withObject: (id)arg
afterDelay: (NSTimeInterval)seconds
inModes: (NSArray*)modes;
@end
#if OS_API_VERSION(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6, GS_API_LATEST)
/**
* The NSDiscardableContent protocol is used by objects which encapsulate data
* which may be discarded if resource constraints are exceeded. These
* constraints are typically, but not always, related memory.
*/
@protocol NSDiscardableContent
/**
* This method is called before any access to the object. It returns YES if
* the object's content is still valid. The caller must call -endContentAccess
* once for every call to -beginContentAccess;
*/
- (BOOL) beginContentAccess;
/**
* Discards the contents of the object if it is not currently being edited.
*/
- (void) discardContentIfPossible;
/**
* This method indicates that the caller has finished accessing the contents of
* the object adopting this protocol. Every call to -beginContentAccess must
* be be paired with a call to this method after the caller has finished
* accessing the contents.
*/
- (void) endContentAccess;
/**
* Returns YES if the contents of the object have been discarded, either via a
* call to -discardContentIfPossible while the object is not in use, or by some
* implementation dependent mechanism.
*/
- (BOOL) isContentDiscarded;
@end
#endif
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#if !NO_GNUSTEP && !defined(GNUSTEP_BASE_INTERNAL)
#import "../GNUstepBase/NSObject+GNUstepBase.h"
#endif
#endif /* __NSObject_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE */