Struct NSException

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#[repr(C)]
pub struct NSException { /* private fields */ }

Available on crate feature NSException only.

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Apple’s documentation

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impl NSException

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pub fn new( name: &NSExceptionName, reason: Option<&NSString>, user_info: Option<&NSDictionary>, ) -> Option<Retained<Self>>

Available on crate features NSObjCRuntime and NSString and NSDictionary only.

Create a new NSException object.

Returns None if the exception couldn’t be created (example: If the process is out of memory).

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pub fn raise(&self) -> !

Raises the exception, causing program flow to jump to the local exception handler.

This is equivalent to using objc2::exception::throw.

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pub fn into_exception(this: Retained<Self>) -> Retained<Exception>

Convert this into an Exception object.

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pub fn from_exception( obj: Retained<Exception>, ) -> Result<Retained<Self>, Retained<Exception>>

Create this from an Exception object.

This should be considered a hint; it may return Err in very, very few cases where the object is actually an instance of NSException.

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impl NSException

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pub unsafe fn exceptionWithName_reason_userInfo( name: &NSExceptionName, reason: Option<&NSString>, user_info: Option<&NSDictionary>, ) -> Retained<NSException>

Available on crate features NSDictionary and NSObjCRuntime and NSString only.

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pub unsafe fn initWithName_reason_userInfo( this: Allocated<Self>, a_name: &NSExceptionName, a_reason: Option<&NSString>, a_user_info: Option<&NSDictionary>, ) -> Retained<Self>

Available on crate features NSDictionary and NSObjCRuntime and NSString only.

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pub fn name(&self) -> Retained<NSExceptionName>

Available on crate features NSObjCRuntime and NSString only.

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pub fn reason(&self) -> Option<Retained<NSString>>

Available on crate feature NSString only.

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pub fn userInfo(&self) -> Option<Retained<NSDictionary>>

Available on crate feature NSDictionary only.

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pub unsafe fn callStackReturnAddresses(&self) -> Retained<NSArray<NSNumber>>

Available on crate features NSArray and NSValue only.

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pub unsafe fn callStackSymbols(&self) -> Retained<NSArray<NSString>>

Available on crate features NSArray and NSString only.

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impl NSException

Methods declared on superclass NSObject.

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pub unsafe fn init(this: Allocated<Self>) -> Retained<Self>

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impl NSException

NSExceptionRaisingConveniences.

This impl block contains no items.

Methods from Deref<Target = NSObject>§

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pub fn doesNotRecognizeSelector(&self, sel: Sel) -> !

Handle messages the object doesn’t recognize.

See Apple’s documentation for details.

Methods from Deref<Target = AnyObject>§

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pub fn class(&self) -> &'static AnyClass

Dynamically find the class of this object.

§Panics

May panic if the object is invalid (which may be the case for objects returned from unavailable init/new methods).

§Example

Check that an instance of NSObject has the precise class NSObject.

use objc2::ClassType;
use objc2::runtime::NSObject;

let obj = NSObject::new();
assert_eq!(obj.class(), NSObject::class());

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pub unsafe fn get_ivar<T>(&self, name: &str) -> &T
where T: Encode,

👎Deprecated: this is difficult to use correctly, use Ivar::load instead.

Use Ivar::load instead.

§Safety

The object must have an instance variable with the given name, and it must be of type T.

See Ivar::load_ptr for details surrounding this.

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pub fn downcast_ref<T>(&self) -> Option<&T>
where T: DowncastTarget,

Attempt to downcast the object to a class of type T.

This is the reference-variant. Use Retained::downcast if you want to convert a retained object to another type.

§Mutable classes

Some classes have immutable and mutable variants, such as NSString and NSMutableString.

When some Objective-C API signature says it gives you an immutable class, it generally expects you to not mutate that, even though it may technically be mutable “under the hood”.

So using this method to convert a NSString to a NSMutableString, while not unsound, is generally frowned upon unless you created the string yourself, or the API explicitly documents the string to be mutable.

See Apple’s documentation on mutability and on isKindOfClass: for more details.

§Generic classes

Objective-C generics are called “lightweight generics”, and that’s because they aren’t exposed in the runtime. This makes it impossible to safely downcast to generic collections, so this is disallowed by this method.

You can, however, safely downcast to generic collections where all the type-parameters are AnyObject.

§Panics

This works internally by calling isKindOfClass:. That means that the object must have the instance method of that name, and an exception will be thrown (if CoreFoundation is linked) or the process will abort if that is not the case. In the vast majority of cases, you don’t need to worry about this, since both root objects NSObject and NSProxy implement this method.

§Examples

Cast an NSString back and forth from NSObject.

use objc2::rc::Retained;
use objc2_foundation::{NSObject, NSString};

let obj: Retained<NSObject> = NSString::new().into_super();
let string = obj.downcast_ref::<NSString>().unwrap();
// Or with `downcast`, if we do not need the object afterwards
let string = obj.downcast::<NSString>().unwrap();

Try (and fail) to cast an NSObject to an NSString.

use objc2_foundation::{NSObject, NSString};

let obj = NSObject::new();
assert!(obj.downcast_ref::<NSString>().is_none());

Try to cast to an array of strings.

use objc2_foundation::{NSArray, NSObject, NSString};

let arr = NSArray::from_retained_slice(&[NSObject::new()]);
// This is invalid and doesn't type check.
let arr = arr.downcast_ref::<NSArray<NSString>>();

This fails to compile, since it would require enumerating over the array to ensure that each element is of the desired type, which is a performance pitfall.

Downcast when processing each element instead.

use objc2_foundation::{NSArray, NSObject, NSString};

let arr = NSArray::from_retained_slice(&[NSObject::new()]);

for elem in arr {
    if let Some(data) = elem.downcast_ref::<NSString>() {
        // handle `data`
    }
}