Objective-C and use of SEL/IMP

Question

Another question of mine about optimizing Objective C programs inspired the following: does anyone have a short example using SEL and IMP when theMethod has two (or more) integers for input?

Answer 1

Here's a good tutorial for getting the current IMP (with an overview of IMPs). A very basic example of IMPs and SELs is:

- (void)methodWithInt:(int)firstInt andInt:(int)secondInt { NSLog(@"%d", firstInt + secondInt); }

SEL theSelector = @selector(methodWithInt:andInt:);
IMP theImplementation = [self methodForSelector:theSelector]; 
//note that if the method doesn't return void, you have to explicitly typecast the IMP, e.g. int(* foo)(id, SEL, int, int) = ...

You could then invoke the IMP like so:

theImplementation(self, theSelector, 3, 5);

There's usually no reason to need IMPs unless you're doing serious voodoo--is there something specific you want to do?

Answer 2

Now that I have this working thanks to eman, I can add yet another example:

SEL cardSelector=@selector(getRankOf:::::::);

IMP rankingMethod=[eval methodForSelector:cardSelector];

rankingMethod(eval, cardSelector, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

I don't need this for anything useful, I just needed to satisfy my curiosity! Thank you again.