[IronPython] Calling explicitly-implemented interface methods

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Foord

Hey all,

I'm porting the dotnet-integration document that comes with IronPython 
to Try Python. The following example doesn't work, because RegistryKey 
isn't available on Silverlight. Can anyone suggest a good alternative of 
an explicitly implemented interface method on a class in Silverlight?


\.NET allows a method with a different name to override a base method
implementation or interface method slot. This is useful if a type implements
two interfaces with methods with the same name. This is known as
`explicity implemented interface methods
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4taxa8t2.aspx`_.
For example, `Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey`
implements `System.IDisposable.Dispose` explicitly::

 from Microsoft.Win32 import RegistryKey
 clr.GetClrType(RegistryKey).GetMethod(Flush) #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo object at ... [Void Flush()]
 clr.GetClrType(RegistryKey).GetMethod(Dispose)


In such cases, IronPython tries to expose the method using its simple name -
if there is no ambiguity::

 from Microsoft.Win32 import Registry
 rkey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(Software)
 rkey.Dispose()

However, it is possible that the type has another method with the same name.
In that case, the explicitly implemented method is not accessible as an 
attribute.
However, it can still be called by using the unbound class instance 
method syntax::


 rkey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(Software)
 System.IDisposable.Dispose(rkey)


All the best,

Michael Foord

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Re: [IronPython] Calling explicitly-implemented interface methods

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Foord

On 30/04/2010 23:58, Dino Viehland wrote:

Michael wrote:
   

On 30/04/2010 23:32, Dino Viehland wrote:
 

Michael wrote:

   

Hey all,

I'm porting the dotnet-integration document that comes with IronPython
to Try Python. The following example doesn't work, because RegistryKey
isn't available on Silverlight. Can anyone suggest a good alternative of
an explicitly implemented interface method on a class in Silverlight?

 

One example might be Python file objects which also implement IDisposable.


   

That would be a really inconvenient example to pick, since in Try Python
I patch __builtin__.file to be a custom type that reads / writes files
to local storage. :-)

Can you think of anything else?
 

It's kind of lame but Python lists explicitly implement IList.Remove.
   


Cool - that will do nicely.

Thanks

Michael


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Re: [IronPython] Calling explicitly-implemented interface methods

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Foord

On 30/04/2010 23:58, Dino Viehland wrote:

Michael wrote:
   

On 30/04/2010 23:32, Dino Viehland wrote:
 

Michael wrote:

   

Hey all,

I'm porting the dotnet-integration document that comes with IronPython
to Try Python. The following example doesn't work, because RegistryKey
isn't available on Silverlight. Can anyone suggest a good alternative of
an explicitly implemented interface method on a class in Silverlight?

 

One example might be Python file objects which also implement IDisposable.


   

That would be a really inconvenient example to pick, since in Try Python
I patch __builtin__.file to be a custom type that reads / writes files
to local storage. :-)

Can you think of anything else?
 

It's kind of lame but Python lists explicitly implement IList.Remove.
   


Hmm... although the following doesn't return None - meaning that it 
doesn't fit the pattern of the first example:


clr.GetClrType(list).GetMethod(Remove)

*dammit* :-)

Michael

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Re: [IronPython] Calling explicitly-implemented interface methods

2010-04-30 Thread Dino Viehland
Michael wrote:
 On 30/04/2010 23:58, Dino Viehland wrote:
  Michael wrote:
 
  On 30/04/2010 23:32, Dino Viehland wrote:
 
  Michael wrote:
 
 
  Hey all,
 
  I'm porting the dotnet-integration document that comes with IronPython
  to Try Python. The following example doesn't work, because RegistryKey
  isn't available on Silverlight. Can anyone suggest a good alternative of
  an explicitly implemented interface method on a class in Silverlight?
 
 
  One example might be Python file objects which also implement IDisposable.
 
 
 
  That would be a really inconvenient example to pick, since in Try Python
  I patch __builtin__.file to be a custom type that reads / writes files
  to local storage. :-)
 
  Can you think of anything else?
 
  It's kind of lame but Python lists explicitly implement IList.Remove.
 
 
 Hmm... although the following doesn't return None - meaning that it
 doesn't fit the pattern of the first example:
 
 clr.GetClrType(list).GetMethod(Remove)
 
 *dammit* :-)

Yeah, I think there's a separate non-explicit one as well because it's 
both an IList and an IListobject.  

Is it Silverlight 4?  You could use System.Tuple[int] and 
IStructuralEquatable.
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