[Ironruby-core] How to get to the CLR type

Tue Jun 24 16:38:01 EDT 2008

XAML is definitely something that’s on our radar as “want improved support”, but we don’t have any specific plans yet.

From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:38 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] How to get to the CLR type

Oh ok.  So what's the story going to be for XAML then? I wrote an application in WPF but I have to resort to writing quite some bits and pieces in C# because XAML for example don't want to play ball when you create a value converter in ruby not even when defining the interface.

class CharRemainingConverter

  include IValueConverter

  def convert(value, target_type, parameter, culture)
    return Constants::CHARACTER_LIMIT - value
  end

  def convert_back(value, target_type, parameter, culture)
    NotImplementedException.new("The method or operation is not implemented.")
  end

end

I have a similar experience when it comes to DependencyProperties. I would like to know what that story is going to around these things. Since this applies to both WPF and Silverlight I think everything will work out fine and I am just too soon for this stuff? Many things come to mind to solve the DependencyProperties or the RoutedEvents like an GlobalEventManagerManager ;) and such but unfortunately some of the building blocks (GlobalEventHandlersStore) are internal so I'm pretty sure I shouldn't mess with it if I don't want my stuff to break in the future.

There is also an issue with ResourceDictionaries where you can't index into them from IronRuby defining a method in C# that reads the dictionary works just fine.

I'm not ranting or complaining.. just sharing my observations :)

Cheers
Ivan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Tomas Matousek <Tomas.Matousek at microsoft.com<mailto:Tomas.Matousek at microsoft.com>> wrote:

Ruby classes have no CLR type. The type you're getting by this is shared across multiple Ruby classes.

Tomas

From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org> [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org>] On Behalf Of Michael Letterle
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:07 AM

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Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] How to get to the CLR type

>>> System::Type.get_type_from_handle System::Type.get_type_handle(Test)
=> #<System::RuntimeType:0x000005c>

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Ivan Porto Carrero <ivan at flanders.co.nz<mailto:ivan at flanders.co.nz>> wrote:

Oh I see..  When I call .to_clr_type on a type that has only been defined in Ruby it returns nil

>>> class Testing; end;
=> nil
>>> Testing.to_clr_type
=> nil
>>> Testing.new.get_type
=> #<System::RuntimeType:0x000005c>

>>>

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <ivan at flanders.co.nz<mailto:ivan at flanders.co.nz>> wrote:

I'm sure i tried that, but then again I tried many things. and I'm sure I've used that before too when I was playing with LightSpeed...
Thanks

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Tomas Matousek <Tomas.Matousek at microsoft.com<mailto:Tomas.Matousek at microsoft.com>> wrote:

>>> require 'mscorlib'

=> true

>>> System::String.to_clr_type

=> #<System::RuntimeType:0x000005c>

Tomas

From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org> [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org>] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:13 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core at rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] How to get to the CLR type

I hit send to quickly there is more

If I do pass it the correct types (which I got from creating instances)
@@login_event = EventManager.register_routed_event("login", RoutingStrategy.bubble, RoutedEventHandler.new{}.get_type, LoginControl.new.get_type)

then I get a new error
RoutedEvent Name 'login' for OwnerType 'Ruby.Classes.UserControl3$3' already used.

Which leads me to believe that either I'm doing it wrong or that that's not supposed to happen/supported yet and I have to file a bug report :)

Cheers
Ivan

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <ivan at flanders.co.nz<mailto:ivan at flanders.co.nz>> wrote:

How do I get to the CLR type definition of a class?

I assumed that the code below would just work or at least not fail where it did :)
@@login_event = EventManager.register_routed_event("login", RoutingStrategy.bubble, RoutedEventHandler, LoginControl)

That has IronRuby complaining about the wrong type of arguments and so on.
And I figure it's because the register_routed_event method expects a CLR type instead of a DLR one. The only way I know to get to the same information as typeof(RoutedEventHandler) is to create an instance and then calling get_type on it.  Is there anoter way for that?

Cheers
Ivan

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