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Re: Abstracting a group of commonly named Selectors

Alex Zavatone
 

Would it be possible to put them in an array or dictionary as NSStrings and use performSelector on one of them if it is present within the array or dict?

On Jul 20, 2020, at 12:11 PM, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari.net@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a certain group of selectors that all follow a strict naming convention,

-(Status)parseXYZ
-(Status)parseRST

All have one line that does the same thing and return a scalar (enum) as a result.
Each method would do something XYZ or RST and return their status

There are about 200 of these… it’s quite annoying to maintain and look at this boiler plate interface. It should not be necessary, I hope.

I would like to abstract them using something like:
-doesNotRecognizeSelector:
or
-forwardInvocation:
or
By some other means, which I cannot conceive of…

The issue I don’t understand is, how would I return the scalar to the original caller once one of the methods has received the program flow. Neither of these methods return anything.

Is what I want to do possible?
If so, what should I be looking at?

Sandor
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