[IronPython] Constructor overloading

[Dino Viehland]

To do typeof you can do:

import clr
clr.GetClrType(pythonType)

and then you can do the GetConstructor call.

There have been some recent fixes which change the way overloading constructors works - you'll want to overload __new__ and not __init__.  There was some potential for confusion here in beta 8 and earlier.

But the correct way to call it should be via new, so you should be able to do:

Class MySubClass(MyDotNetBaseClass):
        def __new__(cls, arg):
                return MyDotNetBaseClass.__new__(cls, arg)

and then to select overloads you should be able to do:

class MySubClass(MyDotNetBaseClass):
        def __new__(cls, arg):
                return MyDotNetBaseClass.__overloads__[Stream](cls, arg)


If that doesn't work for you w/ Beta 8 you might want to try downloading the latest bits and see if that fixes it for you.


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Andrzej Krzywda
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:20 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [IronPython] Constructor overloading

Hello all,

We are trying to create a .Net type object which has several one-parameter constructors.
By default it does the wrong thing and we want to specify which constructor is called.

We tried:

Icon.__overloads__[Stream](myStream)
Icon.__init__.__new__.__overloads__[Stream](myStream)

but neither of these methods work. How can we do it?

We also attempted to work around the issue by using Reflection on the Icon class:

typeof(Icon).GetConstructor([Stream]).Invoke([myStream])

but we can't find the IronPython equivalent of typeof. Does it exist?

--
Andrzej Krzywda


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