How to pass a class name as argument to a function
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Charles
am 21 Mai 2015
Kommentiert: Steven Lord
am 20 Feb. 2024
Hello,
I'd like to initialize an element of a class with another class instance, and I'd like to pass in the particular class as an object. For example:
classdef Aclass < handle
properties
thingObj
end
methods
function this = Aclass(thingClassName)
this.thingObj = thingClassName(arg1,arg2,etc);
end
end
end
This code doesn't work, though ("Index exceeds matrix dimensions"). I assume the problem is you can't call the () operator on an existing object.
Instead, I do this, which does work, but isn't pretty:
classdef SomeClass < handle
properties
thingObj
end
methods
function this = SomeClass(thingClassName)
this.thingObj = eval([class(thingClassName) '(arg1,arg2,etc)']);
end
end
end
There's no checking in the string argument list, and errors in this line are hard to debug.
I could instantiate the object outside the constructor, but that's problematic. I'd like to instantiate the object within the "SomeClass" constructor because it knows the right way to do it.
I'm guessing this is really simple and that I haven't stumbled on the right way yet. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Charles
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Jeff Miller
am 30 Jan. 2019
I think the first classdef ("Aclass") works fine, as long as you pass to its constructor the handle of the class you want instantiated. So, for example,
myobj = Aclass(@theClassToInstantiate)
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Paul Herselman
am 20 Feb. 2024
This works great to just create a single instance of the class passed into the constructor, but I want to create an empty array of the class objects and that does not work:
function obj = clCircularBuffer(length, classToUse)
%CLCIRCULARBUFFER Construct an instance of this class
% must pass in the handle of the class to use, eg
% clCircularBuffer(100, @classToUse)
obj.bufferLength = length;
a = classToUse();
obj.buffer = classToUse.empty(length,0);
end
The line
a = classToUse();
works fine, but on the line
obj.buffer = classToUse.empty(length,0);
I get Dot indexing is not supported for variables of this type.
Steven Lord
am 20 Feb. 2024
If the class in question defines one or more of the array-creation functions you could call that array-creation function using the name of the class (or an instance of the class with the 'like' option). For example, the sym class from Symbolic Math Toolbox does define the zeros method as described on that documentation page:
z = zeros(3, 'sym')
z2 = zeros(4, 'like', z)
whos z z2
If it doesn't support those array-creation functions and you have to use the empty Static method, you could create a function handle to that method and call it.
name = "sym";
methodname = name + ".empty";
functionHandle = str2func(methodname);
z3 = functionHandle(3, 0)
class(z3)
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