[Fwd: Re: Accessing returned objects]

(hit the wrong Reply button...)

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Nathan Fiedler <[email protected]>
To: Michael Keenan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [jswat-user] Accessing returned objects
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:32:16 -0700

This is a limitation in the current expression evaluator (see bug #873).
I am presently working on fixing this and other problems for JSwat 3.0
(based on NetBeans platform). Sadly, it will be some considerable time
before 3.0 is ready for release.

n


On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:12, Michael Keenan wrote:
> I am trying to access objects that are returned by method calls. These
> objects are not locals so my only access to them is through the method
> call. For example:
> 
> getClass().<method>()
> 
> I can invoke/print the class returned by getClass(), but I cannot run
> any methods on this returned object. Is there a solution for this? Am I
> trying to do something in a non-standard way? I am surprised the answer
> is not apparent because there have been quite a few times where I have
> needed this functionality. What am I doing wrong/what am I missing?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael