Re: [Help-smalltalk] Creating new instance variables in a dynamically created class in gst-remote

[Holger Freyther]

> On 05 Sep 2015, at 19:24, Mark Bratcher <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello

Hi!


> I narrowed it down specifically to the instance variable declarations. If I 
> simply add these declarations and nothing else, I get the error. I'm adding 
> instance variables using the common approach:
> 
>   MyClass extend [
>        | newVariable |    "Remove this, the error goes away"
> 
>        ...   "Various selectors added for extension"
>   ]
> 
> How can we figure out why this error occurs? I can try to put together a very 
> minimal Seaside app to reproduce it in that context if needed.

I am afraid it is a known issue. When using gst-remote (the scripts/Remote.st)
the Smalltalk In Smalltalk (STinST) parser is being used to parse your extension
and it doesn’t seem to handle instance variables.

With my time constraints I just maned to switch the order, load my code before
gst-remote is being used. :(

The STInST package is in packages/stinst/parser and based on the refactory
browser. With the Converter.st there are some examples. I used VisualGST in
the past to debug it but then renamed the namespace so I would use a different
parser than VisualGST is using itself. There are also some testcases that could
be serve as an example.

holger