;;; interface_implementation.lisp ;;; ;;; Copyright (C) 2008 Ville Voutilainen ;;; $Id$ ;;; ;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License ;;; as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 ;;; of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;;; ;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;;; ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;;; along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ;;; Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ; first we define a class hierarchy. No slots defined, ; we don't need them in the example. (defclass base ()) (defclass derived1 (base)) (defclass derived2 (base)) ; then a couple of generic methods (defgeneric invoke (param) (:documentation "Sample generic function")) (defgeneric invoke2 (param) (:documentation "Sample generic function")) ; and their methods, for different classes (defmethod invoke ((param derived1)) (format t "in derived1 invoke~%")) (defmethod invoke ((param derived2)) (format t "in derived2 invoke~%")) (defmethod invoke2 ((param derived1)) (format t "in derived1 invoke2~%")) (defmethod invoke2 ((param derived2)) (format t "in derived2 invoke2~%")) ; closure for interface implementation, closes ; over a provided object and calls the invoke ; method with the object. Thus the firstFunction() ; in MyInterface will call the invoke method. (defun make-first-function (object) (lambda () (invoke object))) ; closure for interface implementation, closes ; over a provided object and invokes the invoke2 ; method with the object. Thus the secondFunction() ; in MyInterface will call the invoke2 method. (defun make-second-function (object) (lambda () (invoke2 object))) ; gets an interface implementation, uses an instance of ; class derived1 (defun get-interface () (let ((firstobject (make-instance 'derived1))) (jinterface-implementation "MyInterface" "firstFunction" (make-first-function firstobject) "secondFunction" (make-second-function firstobject)))) ; gets an interface implementation, uses an instance of ; class derived2 (defun get-another-interface () (let ((secondobject (make-instance 'derived2))) (jinterface-implementation "MyInterface" "firstFunction" (make-first-function secondobject) "secondFunction" (make-second-function secondobject))))