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Feature #12655

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 8 years ago

Hello, 

 I took on the task to make the looksee gem work with recent ruby 2.3 and 2.4 
 unfortunately, some feature were not directly accessible in ruby, so a C extension was made including some of ruby internals. 

  

 for ruby 2.2 support, internal.h and method.h was included. for ruby 2.3, I found I needed id_table.h at least. but I did not fully succeeded making it work for 2.3 

 on a short email thread with koichi san, he suggested it would be better to request ruby to add the necessary public interface to ruby, so looksee does not need internals. 

 looksee creates these new methods from ruby internals 

 ```C 
 

   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_superclass", Looksee_internal_superclass, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_class", Looksee_internal_class, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_public_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_public_instance_methods, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_protected_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_protected_instance_methods, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_private_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_private_instance_methods, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "internal_undefined_instance_methods", Looksee_internal_undefined_instance_methods, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "included_class?", Looksee_included_class_p, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "singleton_class?", Looksee_singleton_class_p, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "singleton_instance", Looksee_singleton_instance, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "real_module", Looksee_real_module, 1); 
 
   rb_define_method(mMRI, "module_name", Looksee_module_name, 1); 
 ``` 

 


 it uses the following macros to find the method visibility and if it has been redefined 

 ```C 
 

   UNDEFINED_METHOD_ENTRY_P(me) 
 
   METHOD_ENTRY_VISI(me) 
 ``` 

 Ideally, a ruby method that would return its visibility, should return one of the following value 

 ```ruby 
 [:public, :protected, :private, :undefined, :overridden] 
 ``` 

 we are using other ruby macros to find where the method is define, which module or class. 

 ```C 
 RCLASS_SUPER(internal_class) 
 CLASS_OF(object) 
 RCLASS_M_TBL(klass) 
 SPECIAL_CONST_P(object) 
 BUILTIN_TYPE(object) 
 FL_TEST(singleton_class, FL_SINGLETON) 
 RCLASS_IV_TBL(singleton_class) 
 RBASIC(module_or_included_class)->klass 
 ``` 

 that is mostly it 

 you can see what I have tried for ruby 2.3 
 https://github.com/oggy/looksee/pull/36/files#diff-d5ef4b0cfbd5a6712f37dfa7ffbe2130 

 I'm unable to use `rb_id_table_foreach` rb_id_table_foreach which seems like I would need to import too much of ruby code inside the extension... which I would prefer not including more C into this gem 

 So I am trying to extract an `st_table` st_table from the `struct rb_id_table*` struct rb_id_table* but I am getting a deferencing incomplete type error. 

 please help. 

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