Struct TVContentIdentifier 

pub struct TVContentIdentifier { /* private fields */ }

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

Available on crate feature TVContentIdentifier only.

Represents unique identifiers for TVContentItems.

A content identifier is represented by a string, with an optional hierarchical structure of other content identifiers. A content identifier should be unique to a particular Content Item, across ALL past, current, and future content items. A content identifier should be durable: it should be able to be saved by itself, and an item should be able to be identified by it, unambiguously, in the future (though the user may not have access to that item). The uniqueness of a content identifier comes from the uniqueness of its two parts: its identifier string and its container (another content identifier). The identifier property of content identifiers need not be univerally unique across all the app’s content identifiers, if items have container properties which are themselves unique. However, developers should then be careful to not be confused by equal identifier strings in content identifiers with different container hierarchies.

See also Apple’s documentation

Implementations

impl TVContentIdentifier

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

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

The string contents of this identifier.

Any internal format or structure within the string is up to the application.

pub unsafe fn container(&self) -> Option<Retained<TVContentIdentifier>>

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

Optional content identifier for the next level up in the logical structure which this content identifier is identifying a part of.

Typically this would be the content identifier for the next larger grouping that the content, identified by this content identifier, is part of. For example, a podcast episode could be part of a larger podcast season, which would be part of the entire podcast series; all three of those layers – episodes, seasons, and the series – would need their own unique identifiers.

pub unsafe fn initWithIdentifier_container( this: Allocated<Self>, identifier: &NSString, container: Option<&TVContentIdentifier>, ) -> Retained<Self>

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

pub unsafe fn initWithCoder( this: Allocated<Self>, coder: &NSCoder, ) -> Option<Retained<Self>>

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

Safety

coder possibly has further requirements.

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

👎Deprecated: TVContentIdentifier has been replaced by TVTopShelfContentProvider

impl TVContentIdentifier

Methods declared on superclass NSObject.

pub unsafe fn new() -> Retained<Self>

Methods from Deref<Target = NSObject>

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

Handle messages the object doesn’t recognize.

See Apple’s documentation for details.

Methods from Deref<Target = AnyObject>

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());

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.

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`
    }
}

Trait Implementations

impl AsRef<AnyObject> for TVContentIdentifier

fn as_ref(&self) -> &AnyObject

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl AsRef<NSObject> for TVContentIdentifier

fn as_ref(&self) -> &NSObject

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl AsRef<TVContentIdentifier> for TVContentIdentifier

fn as_ref(&self) -> &Self

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl Borrow<AnyObject> for TVContentIdentifier

fn borrow(&self) -> &AnyObject

Immutably borrows from an owned value.

impl Borrow<NSObject> for TVContentIdentifier

fn borrow(&self) -> &NSObject

Immutably borrows from an owned value.

impl ClassType for TVContentIdentifier

const NAME: &'static str = "TVContentIdentifier"

The name of the Objective-C class that this type represents.

type Super = NSObject

The superclass of this class.

type ThreadKind = <<TVContentIdentifier as ClassType>::Super as ClassType>::ThreadKind

Whether the type can be used from any thread, or from only the main thread.

fn class() -> &'static AnyClass

Get a reference to the Objective-C class that this type represents.

fn as_super(&self) -> &Self::Super

Get an immutable reference to the superclass.

impl CopyingHelper for TVContentIdentifier

type Result = TVContentIdentifier

The immutable counterpart of the type, or Self if the type has no immutable counterpart.

impl Debug for TVContentIdentifier

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Deref for TVContentIdentifier

type Target = NSObject

The resulting type after dereferencing.

fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target

Dereferences the value.

impl Hash for TVContentIdentifier

fn hash<H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut H)

Feeds this value into the given Hasher.

fn hash_slice<H>(data: &[Self], state: &mut H)

where H: Hasher, Self: Sized,

Feeds a slice of this type into the given Hasher.

impl Message for TVContentIdentifier

fn retain(&self) -> Retained<Self>

where Self: Sized,

Increment the reference count of the receiver.

impl NSCoding for TVContentIdentifier

unsafe fn encodeWithCoder(&self, coder: &NSCoder)

where Self: Sized + Message,

Safety

unsafe fn initWithCoder( this: Allocated<Self>, coder: &NSCoder, ) -> Option<Retained<Self>>

where Self: Sized + Message,

Safety

impl NSCopying for TVContentIdentifier

fn copy(&self) -> Retained<Self::Result>

where Self: Sized + Message + CopyingHelper,

Returns a new instance that’s a copy of the receiver.

unsafe fn copyWithZone(&self, zone: *mut NSZone) -> Retained<Self::Result>

where Self: Sized + Message + CopyingHelper,

Returns a new instance that’s a copy of the receiver.

impl NSObjectProtocol for TVContentIdentifier

fn isEqual(&self, other: Option<&AnyObject>) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check whether the object is equal to an arbitrary other object.

fn hash(&self) -> usize

where Self: Sized + Message,

An integer that can be used as a table address in a hash table structure.

fn isKindOfClass(&self, cls: &AnyClass) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check if the object is an instance of the class, or one of its subclasses.

fn is_kind_of<T>(&self) -> bool

where T: ClassType, Self: Sized + Message,

👎Deprecated: use isKindOfClass directly, or cast your objects with AnyObject::downcast_ref

Check if the object is an instance of the class type, or one of its subclasses.

fn isMemberOfClass(&self, cls: &AnyClass) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check if the object is an instance of a specific class, without checking subclasses.

fn respondsToSelector(&self, aSelector: Sel) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check whether the object implements or inherits a method with the given selector.

fn conformsToProtocol(&self, aProtocol: &AnyProtocol) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check whether the object conforms to a given protocol.

fn description(&self) -> Retained<NSObject>

where Self: Sized + Message,

A textual representation of the object.

fn debugDescription(&self) -> Retained<NSObject>

where Self: Sized + Message,

A textual representation of the object to use when debugging.

fn isProxy(&self) -> bool

where Self: Sized + Message,

Check whether the receiver is a subclass of the NSProxy root class instead of the usual NSObject.

fn retainCount(&self) -> usize

where Self: Sized + Message,

The reference count of the object.

impl NSSecureCoding for TVContentIdentifier

fn supportsSecureCoding() -> bool

where Self: Sized + ClassType,

impl PartialEq for TVContentIdentifier

fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl RefEncode for TVContentIdentifier

const ENCODING_REF: Encoding = <NSObject as ::objc2::RefEncode>::ENCODING_REF

The Objective-C type-encoding for a reference of this type.

impl DowncastTarget for TVContentIdentifier

impl Eq for TVContentIdentifier