I want to use some of the iOS 4.x things in iOS 3.x. I know how to implement them, I assume my implementation is slower or might have more bugs then Apple's so I want to use Apple's any time it is available.
Is doing something like this sane:
@implementation NSDictionary (NSDictionary_4)
void compatability_method(Class class, SEL newer_version_selector, SEL compatability_selector) {
Method existingMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(class, newer_version_selector);
if (!existingMethod) {
Method compatabilityMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(class, compatability_selector);
class_replaceMethod(class, newer_version_selector, method_getImplementation(compatabilityMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(compatabilityMethod));
}
}
+(void)load {
if (self == [NSDictionary class]) {
compatability_method(self, @selector(enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:), @selector(four_enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:));
}
}
-(void)four_enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:(void (^)(id key, id obj, BOOL *stop))block {
BOOL stop = false;
for (id key in self) {
block(key, [self objectForKey:key], &stop);
if (stop) {
break;
}
}
}
@end
If it is a bad idea, what would be better?
(if it is sane, but the code is a bit off, I would like to know that too...but I'm more interested to know if the entire idea is decent, or if this entire sort of construct should be avoided)