[Xotcl] NX unknown method

[Victor Mayevski]

Thank you Stefan. That clarifies it.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Stefan Sobernig
<stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at> wrote:
> Victor,
>
>>  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> No, what you scripted is perfectly fine (by intention), you just revealed a
> collateral (in my understanding):
>
> Right now, there is no ::nx::Object->unknown() defined, which would be the
> [next] target. Therefore, [next] does not give you what you expect. If you
> look in nx.tcl, it is simply commented out.
>
> In the commit
> http://fisheye.openacs.org/changelog/xotcl/?cs=//xotcl/67ad561b71e208451454fc1d71e591e75e4f3a71
> changes where applied to make a scripted unknown method on the root class
> (::nx::Object) unnecessary.
> however, these changes do not cover the case of refining this built-in
> unknown "method".
>
> a quick workaround for the scope of your application is to define
> ::nx::Object->unknown() at an early stage:
>
> ::nx::Object protected method unknown {m args} {
>  error "[::nsf::self]: unable to dispatch method '$m'"
> }
>
> or simply signal the error in your application-level unknown:
>
> C method unknown {m args} {
>  if {$args eq "test"} {
>    puts "found test";
>    return
>  }
>  error "[::nsf::self]: unable to dispatch method '$m'"
> }
>
>
> for an authorative fix i would need to understand why these changes happened
> in the first place which i don't, frankly. was the intention to remove
> unknown from ::nx::Object method record entirely? i hope not ... but gustaf
> is the authority here.
>
> //stefan
>