Actually I think the safest thing to do here would be to output the
immediate base class, I *think* that should always work correctly. And that
is all I need to follow the inheritance chain and collect the inherited
members for the higher level TypeDefinition. Alex if you have a different
view of how this should work, please let me know.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Never mind, I think I don't need to do this output. It looks like I can
> simply use constructor.superClass in js and go recursive. Please ignore.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Alex this might be a question more for you, unless others are familiar
>> with the topic.
>>
>> I am currently doing a bit more on reflection. Instead of outputting the
>> fully resolved ancestral definition for each class, which would mean a lot
>> of duplicated output across the inheritance chain, I assumed it would be
>> best to resolve this at runtime (with caching) in the TypeDefinitions. So
>> each TypeDefinition lookup would check its ancestors and add to its local
>> collection of instance based members if they weren't already 'declaredBy'
>> again (an override), and I envisaged caching the fully resolved
>> TypeDefinition. This would get to a similar result to flash native
>> describeType.
>>
>> so I am adding inheritsFrom into the output like so:
>>
>> MyInitialView.prototype.FLEXJS_REFLECTION_INFO = function () {
>> return {
>> inheritsFrom: function () {
>> return [ 'org.apache.flex.core.View', 'org.apache.flex.core.ViewBase',
>> 'org.apache.flex.core.ContainerBase', 'org.apache.flex.core.UIBase',
>> 'org.apache.flex.core.HTMLElementWrapper', 'flash.display.Sprite',
>> 'flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer', 'flash.display.InteractiveObject',
>> 'flash.display.DisplayObject', 'flash.events.EventDispatcher', 'Object'
>> ] ;
>> },
>>
>> But it seems that the framework swc library only provides the flash
>> version of the inheritance chain for this, because jx sees the
>> flash.display.* classes in the loaded typedefinitions. Is there any way the
>> compiler can load the definitions that were used when the js part of the
>> swc was compiled for jx? I suspect not at the moment, but I'm just checking
>> that I am not missing something obvious.....
>>
>>
>>
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