--- Reuh's class library version 0.1.4. Lua 5.1-5.3 and LuaJit compatible. -- Objects and classes behavior are identical, so you can consider this to be somewhat prototype-based. -- Features: -- * Multiple inheritance with class(parents...) or someclass(newstuff...) -- * Every metamethods supported -- * Everything in a class can be redefined (and will be usable in an object) (except __super) -- * Preserve parents metamethods if already set -- * Instanciate with class:new(...) -- * Test inheritance relations with class/object.is(thing, isThis) -- * Call object:new(...) on instanciation -- * If object:new(...) returns non-nil values, they will be returned instead of the instance -- * Call class.__inherit(class, inheritingClass) when creating a class inheriting the previous class. If class.__inherit returns a value, it will -- be used as the parent table instead of class, allowing some pretty fancy behavior (it's like an inheritance metamethod). -- * Implements Class Commons -- * I don't like to do this, but you can redefine every field and metamethod after class creation (except __index and __super). -- Not features / Things you may want to know: -- * Will set the metatable of all parent classes/tables if no metatable is set (the table will be its own metatable). -- * You can't redefine __super (any __super you define will be only avaible by searching in the default __super contents). -- * Redefining __super or __index after class creation will break everything (though it should be ok with new, is, __call and everything else). -- * When creating a new class, the methods new, is, __call, __index and __super will always be redefined, so trying to get theses fields -- will return the default method and not the one you've defined. However, theses defaults will be replaced by yours automatically on instanciation, -- except __super and __index, but __index should call your __index and act like you expect. __super will however always be the default one -- and doesn't proxy in any way yours. -- * __index metamethods will be called with an extra third argument, which is the current class being searched in the inheritance tree. -- You can safely ignore it. -- -- Please also note that the last universal ancestor of the classes (defined here in BaseClass) sets the default __tostring method -- and __name attribute for nice class-name-printing. Unlike the previoulsy described attributes and methods however, it is done in a normal -- inheritance-way and can be rewritten without any problem (rewritting __name is especially useful to easily identify your classes). -- Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Étienne "Reuh" Fildadut -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy -- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal -- in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights -- to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell -- copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is -- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: -- -- 1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in -- all copies or substantial portions of the Software; and -- 2. You must cause any modified source files to carry prominent notices stating -- that you changed the files. -- -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR -- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, -- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE -- AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER -- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, -- OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE -- SOFTWARE. -- Lua versions compatibility local unpack = table.unpack or unpack --- All Lua 5.3 metamethods. local metamethods = { "__add", "__sub", "__mul", "__div", "__mod", "__pow", "__unm", "__idiv", "__band", "__bor", "__bxor", "__bnot", "__shl", "__shr", "__tostring", "__concat", "__len", "__eq", "__lt", "__le", "__index", "__newindex", "__call", "__gc" } local different --- When set, every class __index method will only return a value different from this one. --- When using a proxied method, contains the last indexed class. -- This is used for class.is(object); lastIndex will contain class so the is method can react accordingly, without having to be -- re-set for each class (and therefore doesn't break the "different" mecanism). local lastIndexed local makeclass, methods, BaseClass --- Classes defaults methods: will be re-set on each class creation. -- If you overwrite them, you will only be able to call them from an object. -- Methods starting with a "!" are "proxied methods": they're not present in the class table and will only be called through __index, -- allowing more control over it (for example having access to lastIndexed). methods = { --- Create an object from the class. -- In pratise, this only subclass the class and call the new method on it, so technically an object is a class. -- Objects are exaclty like classes, but the __call metamethod will be replaced by one found in the parents, -- or nil if doesn't exist (so an object is not directly subclassable). -- (If no __call method is defined in a parent, you won't be able to call the object, but obj.__call will still -- returns the default (subclassing) method, from one of the parents classes.) -- The same happens with :new and :is, but since they're not metamethods, if not defined in a parent you won't -- notice any difference. -- TL;DR (since I think I'm not really clear): you can redefine __call, :new and :is in parents and use them in objects only. -- A new object will only be created if calling the method "class:new(...)", if you call for example "class.new(someTable, ...)", it -- will only execute the constructor defined in the class on someTable. This can be used to execute the parent constructor in a child -- object, for example. -- It should also be noted that if the new method returns non-nil value(s), they will be returned instead of the object. ["!new"] = function(self, ...) if lastIndexed == self then local obj, ret = self(), nil -- Setting class methods to the ones found in parents (we use rawset in order to avoid calling the __newindex metamethod) different = methods["!new"] rawset(obj, "new", obj:__index("new") or nil) different = methods["!is"] rawset(obj, "is", obj:__index("is") or nil) different = methods.__call rawset(obj, "__call", obj:__index("__call") or nil) different = nil -- Call constructor if obj.new ~= methods["!new"] and type(obj.new) == "function" then ret = { obj:new(...) } end if not ret or #ret == 0 then return obj else return unpack(ret) end else different = methods["!new"] local new = lastIndexed:__index("new") or nil different = nil return new(self, ...) end end, --- Returns true if self is other or a subclass of other. -- If other is nil, will return true if self is a subclass of the class who called this method. -- Examples: -- class.is(a) will return true if a is any class or object -- (class()):is(class) will return true ((class()) is a subclass of class) -- (class()).is(class) will return false (class isn't a subclass of (class())) ["!is"] = function(self, other) if type(self) ~= "table" then return false end if other == nil then other = lastIndexed end if self == other then return true end for _, t in ipairs(self.__super) do if t == other then return true end if t.is == methods["!is"] and t:is(other) then return true end end return false end, --- Subclass the class: will create a class inheriting self and ... (... will have priority over self). __call = function(self, ...) local t = {...} table.insert(t, self) return makeclass(unpack(t)) end, --- Internal value getting; this follows a precise search order. -- For example: class(Base1, Base2){stuff} -- When getting a value from the class, it will be first searched in stuff, then in Base1, then in all Base1 parents, -- then in Base2, then in Base2 parents. -- A way to describe this will be search in the latest added tables (from the farthest child to the first parents), from left-to-right. -- self always refer to the initial table the metamethod was called on, super refers to the class currently being searched for a value. __index = function(self, k, super) local proxied = methods["!"..tostring(k)] if proxied ~= nil and proxied ~= different then -- proxied methods lastIndexed = self return proxied end for _, t in ipairs((super or self).__super) do -- search in super (will follow __index metamethods) local val = rawget(t, k) if val ~= nil and val ~= different then return val end -- Also covers the case when different search is enabled and the raw t[k] returns an identical value, so the __index metamethod search will be tried for another value. if getmetatable(t) and getmetatable(t).__index then val = getmetatable(t).__index(self, k, t) if val ~= nil and val ~= different then return val end end end end } --- Create a new class width parents ... (left-to-right priority). function makeclass(...) local class = { __super = {} -- parent classes/tables list } for k, v in pairs(methods) do -- copy class methods if k:sub(1, 1) ~= "!" then class[k] = v end -- except proxied methods end setmetatable(class, class) for _, t in ipairs({...}) do -- fill super if getmetatable(t) == nil then setmetatable(t, t) end -- auto-metatable the table if type(t.__inherit) == "function" then t = t:__inherit(class) or t end -- call __inherit callback table.insert(class.__super, t) end -- Metamethods query are always raw and thefore don't follow our __index, so we need to manually define thoses. for _, metamethod in ipairs(metamethods) do local inSuper = class:__index(metamethod) if inSuper and rawget(class, metamethod) == nil then rawset(class, metamethod, inSuper) end end return class end --- The class which will be a parents for all the other classes. -- We add some pretty-printing default in here. We temporarly remove the metatable in order to avoid a stack overflow. BaseClass = makeclass { __name = "class", __tostring = function(self) local mt, name = getmetatable(self), self.__name setmetatable(self, nil) local str = ("%s (%s)"):format(tostring(name), tostring(self)) setmetatable(self, mt) return str end } --- Class Commons implementation. -- https://github.com/bartbes/Class-Commons if common_class and not common then common = {} -- class = common.class(name, table, parents...) function common.class(name, table, ...) return BaseClass(table, ...){ __name = name, new = table.init } end -- instance = common.instance(class, ...) function common.instance(class, ...) return class:new(...) end end return BaseClass