Struct VZMACAddress

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#[repr(C)]
pub struct VZMACAddress { /* private fields */ }

Available on crate feature VZMACAddress only.

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VZMACAddress represents a media access control address (MAC address), the 48-bit ethernet address.

The easiest way to obtain a MAC address is with +[VZMACAddress randomLocallyAdministeredAddress]. The method returns a valid local MAC address typically used with network interfaces.

See: VZNetworkDeviceConfiguration

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pub unsafe fn initWithString( this: Allocated<Self>, string: &NSString, ) -> Option<Retained<Self>>

Initialize the VZMACAddress from a string representation of a MAC address.

Parameter string: The string should be formatted representing the 6 bytes in hexadecimal separated by a colon character. e.g. “01:23:45:ab:cd:ef”

The alphabetical characters can appear lowercase or uppercase.

Returns: A VZMACAddress or nil if the string is not formatted correctly.

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

Create a valid, random, unicast, locally administered address.

The generated address is not guaranteed to be unique.

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

The address represented as a string.

The 6 bytes are represented in hexadecimal form, separated by a colon character. Alphabetical characters are lowercase.

The address is compatible with the parameter of -[VZMACAddress initWithString:].

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pub unsafe fn isBroadcastAddress(&self) -> bool

True if the address is the broadcast address, false otherwise.

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pub unsafe fn isMulticastAddress(&self) -> bool

True if the address is a multicast address, false otherwise.

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pub unsafe fn isUnicastAddress(&self) -> bool

True if the address is a unicast address, false otherwise.

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pub unsafe fn isLocallyAdministeredAddress(&self) -> bool

True if the address is a locally administered addresses (LAA), false otherwise.

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pub unsafe fn isUniversallyAdministeredAddress(&self) -> bool

True if the address is a universally administered addresses (UAA), false otherwise.

Methods from Deref<Target = NSObject>§

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

Handle messages the object doesn’t recognize.

See Apple’s documentation for details.

Methods from Deref<Target = AnyObject>§

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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());

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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.

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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`
    }
}