Creates a Lisp class, and potentially some or all the superclasses as needed based on the tree.
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ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree lisp-name java-class-tree force-p => class
lisp-name⇩ |
A symbol. |
java-class-tree⇩ |
A tree. |
force-p⇩ |
A generalized boolean. |
class |
A class metaobject. |
The function ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
creates a class for lisp-name, and potentially some or all the superclasses as needed based on the tree. Note that all references to "class" here are to Lisp classes. ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
does not actually know anything about Java.
ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
appears the output of the importing interface functions, where it is called with the output of get-superclass-and-interfaces-tree. Users can use it as well, but normally using plain defclass is much more appropriate.
java-class-tree is a tree representing the hierarchy of the Java classes. The structure of the tree is describe in the documentation for get-superclass-and-interfaces-tree. In general it is assumed that this tree was generated by get-superclass-and-interfaces-tree, but you can generate it yourself if you find it useful, but normally simply using defclass to define the classes you want is better.
force-p controls whether to force classes to exist or not.
The processing of a node in the tree when force-p is nil
is as follows (note that java-class-tree is the first node):
ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
skips this node and use instead the superclass node.ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
processes the nodes of the superclass and the nodes of the interfaces, each one of which returns a class, and construct the superclasses list from the result. It remove duplicates from the list, which can happen because interfaces can be implemented by more than one route.ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
checks whether the symbol has got a class definition, and if this class definition inherit from all the superclasses. If it does, it returns this class as the result. If a class is found but is not inheriting all the superclasses, ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
redefine it to inherit all the superclasses (ignoring the existing definition), and return it. If the class is not found, ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
skips this node and use instead the superclass node.
For the first node, ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
always creates the class.
If force-p is true, then ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
never fails for any node. Instead, in step 1 when it does not find the symbol it generates a symbol in the same way that generate-java-class-definitions does by default, and in step 3 if there is no class it creates it.
ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
does not need running Java.ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
is to create the needed class(es) at load-time without a need for running Java. It is not intended to be used at run time.ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
uses clos:ensure-class to create or redefine classes, so requires keeping CLOS in a delivered image (as described in the Delivery User Guide).ensure-lisp-classes-from-tree
generates a full hierarchy with a CLOS class matching each Java class. with force-p nil
, at least standard-java-object will always be in the hierarchy, plus any classes that were define by the importing interface or recorded by the user using record-java-class-lisp-symbol.
get-superclass-and-interfaces-tree
generate-java-class-definitions
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