Hi fellows corona SDK developers,
I am currently trying to implements inheritance with Beebe’s approach explained in his tutorial blogpost: Modular Classes in Corona found here: http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/09/tutorial-modular-classes-in-corona/
I’m familiar at how using classes in corona, but soon as I try to implements inheritance, I am getting some unexpected errors.
In the comment section of his blogpost, fellow @Victor wanted to know how to implement inheritance, just like me. Jonathan gave him this answer:
@Victor: To make the dog class extend from that, in your dog.new() function, you’d set the table be an instance of animal, and also have whatever new properties that are specific to that dog. For example: <br>function dog.new()<br> local d = require( "animal" ).new()<br> d.name = "Rover"<br> <br> return setmetatable( d, dog_mt )<br>end<br>
But, when I try this inheritance approach, I got an error while trying to call the numberOfLegs() methods.
I would like someone to look at my code and see what’s going wrong. Maybe Beebe’s approach is correct and I am just doing it wrong, but I want to know how I can implement inheritance in Lua the best way possible, possibly in line with Beebe’s approach tutorial…
Here I post the code from an easy and well commented example:
main.lua :
--Regular use of the base class animal.lua
local animal = require("animal").new({
legs = " 4 legs !",
})
--Call method numberOfLegs()
animal:numberOfLegs() -- Output: The animal has : 4 legs !
--Use of inherited class dog
local dog = require("dog").new()
--Call method getName()
dog:getName() -- Output: His name is Rover
--Call method numberOfLegs()
dog:numberOfLegs() -- ERROR : attempt to call method 'numberOfLegs' (a nil value)
--I should be able to call base methods from an inherited class...but it throws me an error... dog.lua (inherited from animal.lua) :
--Class dog
local dog= {}
local dog\_mt = { \_\_index = dog } -- metatable
-- PUBLIC FUNCTIONS
----
function dog.new() -- constructor
local dog = require( "animal" ).new({legs = " 4 legs !"})
dog.name = "Rover"
return setmetatable( dog, dog\_mt )
end
function dog:getName()
print("His name is " .. self.name)
end
return dog animal.lua (base class) :
--Class animal
local animal= {}
local animal\_mt = { \_\_index = animal } -- metatable
-- PUBLIC FUNCTIONS
----
function animal.new( params ) -- constructor
local newAnimal = {
legs = params.legs,
hair = params.hair or false,
vertebrate = params.vertebrated or true
}
return setmetatable( newAnimal, animal\_mt )
end
---
function animal:numberOfLegs ()
print ( "The animal has :" .. self.legs )
end
return animal [import]uid: 20617 topic_id: 24462 reply_id: 324462[/import]