https://github.com/bartbes/Class-Commons

An attempt at unifying lua class libraries to provide a common API.
https://github.com/bartbes/Class-Commons

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An attempt at unifying lua class libraries to provide a common API.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bartbes/Class-Commons
• Owner: bartbes
• Created: 2011-06-24T07:21:55.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-13T14:05:27.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-20T10:25:47.595Z (16 days ago)
• Homepage: http://love2d.org/wiki/Class_Commons
• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 53
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Class Commons #

*Class Commons* is a project to provide a common compatibility interface for class systems. The goal of this is to make libraries independent of class libraries, a library using the Class Commons API can then be used with any class system adhering to it (albeit via a compatibility layer).

## Specification ##

### Features ###

* Single-class inheritance

* Constructors

* Instance methods

* Polymorphism

Class definition is single-write read-only, so the entire class has to be defined on creation.

### Functions ###

	class = common.class(name, table, parents...)

	instance = common.instance(class, ...)

### Class constructors ###

Constructors are defined by the special `init` function:

	foo = {}

	function foo:init()

		self.bar = "baz"

	end

	foo = common.class("foo", foo)

Derived classes may access the super class constructors by using `.init`, but

ONLY if the parent was created using common.class:

	foo = common.class("foo", {init = function(self) self.foo = true end})

	bar = common.class("bar", {init = function(self) foo.init(self) end})

NOTE: Accessing `.init` from classes not created with common.class yields

      undefined behaviour.

### Instances ###

Instances may be created using `common.instance`:

	foo = common.class("foo", {init = function(self, bar) self.bar = bar end})

	baz = common.instance(foo, 'baz')

#### Example ####

	local Tree = {}

	function Tree:grow()

		print("Is a big tree now!")

	end

	function Tree:chop()

		print("Chopped down a tree.")

	end

	local Ent = {}

	function Ent:chop()

		print("I am no tree, I am an ent!")

	end

	

	Tree = common.class("Tree", Tree)

	Ent = common.class("Ent", Ent, Tree)

	local tree = common.instance(Ent)

	tree:grow() --> Is a big tree now!

	tree:chop() --> I am no tree, I am an ent!

## Participating libraries ##

* [SECS][]

* [Slither][]

* [MiddleClass][]

* [hump.class][]

* [30log][]

* [oop.item][]

## Repository information ##

This repository will both contain documentation (like this very document) and tests. (Note: located in a subrepository.)

The authors of participating libraries all get write access, and are free, and encouraged, to collaborate.

[SECS]: http://love2d.org/wiki/Simple_Educative_Class_System

[Slither]: http://bitbucket.org/bartbes/slither

[MiddleClass]: http://github.com/kikito/middleclass/wiki

[hump.class]: http://vrld.github.com/hump/#class

[30log]: https://github.com/Yonaba/30log

[oop.item]: https://github.com/Wozzy06/lua-libs/tree/master/lua-libs/src/oop