/* * This file is part of libooc. * https://xw3.org/hanez/libooc * * Copyright 2026 Johannes Findeisen * Licensed under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license. * https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0 */ /* * Dog -- an Animal subclass that overrides the virtual `speak` method. * * Because Dog embeds an Animal as its first member, a Dog can be passed * wherever an Animal is expected and still reach Dog's own vtable. * * Subclassing here means three things, and this file shows each one. The object * is allocated from Dog_class, whose `super` points at Animal_class so the * inherited fields resolve. Animal's members are built by animal_init(), the * base class' own entry point, rather than duplicated. And a separate vtable * and destructor are registered for Dog, so the override and the extra * allocation are cleaned up by the runtime type of the object. */ #include "dog.h" #include #include #include #include #include /* * Copy `text` onto the heap; the caller owns the result. * * A private copy of Animal's helper, and identical to it. It is duplicated * rather than shared because a class keeps its own constructor state: exposing * dupstr() would mean the derived class reaching into a base class' internals * to build its members, which is the coupling subclassing is meant to remove. * * Returns NULL if `text` is NULL or the allocation fails. */ static char *dupstr(const char *text) { size_t len; char *copy; if (!text) return NULL; len = strlen(text); if (len == SIZE_MAX) return NULL; ++len; copy = malloc(len); if (copy) memcpy(copy, text, len); return copy; } /* * Virtual destructor: releases everything dog_new() allocated. * * This replaces Animal's destructor rather than running after it, because the * library calls the one belonging to the object's runtime type and stops * there. So a Dog is responsible for Animal's members too: `name` is freed * below even though animal_init() allocated it, and Animal's own destroy() * never runs for a Dog. The second free is the half of a derived destructor * that is easy to forget. * * The order does not matter, since the two allocations are independent, and * both are owned: "breed" is marked as owned in the field table, and "name" is * marked as owned in Animal's, so ooc_set() releases a string when it replaces * one and what is left here is freed on destruction. */ static void destroy(ooc_object *object) { Dog *dog = (Dog *)object; free(dog->breed); free(dog->animal.name); } /* * Dog's implementation of AnimalVTable::speak. * * The signature is Animal's, not Dog's: a vtable entry is called through the * base class' type, so the implementation casts its parameter back down. That * cast is the cost of a subclass adding behaviour to an existing method, and * it is safe only because Animal is the first member of Dog, which makes the * two addresses the same. * * Adding a *new* virtual method is not possible this way, since the vtable is * the base class' struct: that takes an interface struct of its own, holding * the vtable pointer this class already has as `vtable`. */ static void speak(Animal *animal) { Dog *dog = (Dog *)animal; printf("%s says: Woof! (%s)\n", dog->animal.name ? dog->animal.name : "(unnamed)", dog->breed ? dog->breed : "(unknown breed)"); } /* * Dog's own vtable, identical in shape to Animal's and holding Dog's speak. * * A subclass that overrides nothing reuses the base table as it is, so the * override is what makes a separate table necessary here. */ static const AnimalVTable vt = { .speak = speak, }; /* * The fields Dog adds on top of the ones Animal publishes. * * A derived class lists only what it declares itself; the rest is inherited * rather than repeated. Anything missing here -- "name", "age", and Animal's * two underscore names -- is still reachable through ooc_get() and ooc_set(), * because Dog_class names Animal_class as its base and lookup walks the chain. * * Like Animal's name, `breed` is marked as owned, so replacing it through * ooc_set() releases the string it held before. The underscores of the * inherited fields keep their meaning across the boundary: ooc_set(dog, "_id") * is still refused even though Dog did not declare it. */ static const ooc_field Dog_fields[] = { { "breed", offsetof(Dog, breed), sizeof(((Dog *)0)->breed), 1 }, { NULL, 0, 0, 0 }, }; /* * Dog's runtime type record. * * `super` is what makes Dog a Dog: field lookup continues from Animal_class, so * "name", "age", "_id" and "__legs" resolve even though Dog does not list them. * `size` is sizeof(Dog) rather than sizeof(Animal), since the allocation has to * hold the breed as well as the base. */ const ooc_class Dog_class = { .size = sizeof(Dog), .destroy = destroy, .super = &Animal_class, .fields = Dog_fields, }; /* * Create a Dog named `name` of the given `breed` and return it, or NULL. * * Three steps, in the order a subclass constructor needs them. The object is * allocated through ooc_new() with a reference count of one, so the caller owns * it and must release it. animal_init() fills in the base part, including the * `_id` and `__legs` that only Animal may write. Then the vtable is replaced * with Dog's, so the object answers to Dog's speak rather than Animal's. * * The vtable is overwritten after animal_init() rather than before, since that * call installs Animal's table and this one has to win. * * Each step can fail, and both failures release the object, which is safe * because the destructor is already registered and frees whatever is present: * after a failed animal_init() there is no name and no breed to free, and after * a failed breed copy the name has to be freed, which is exactly what the * destructor does. Returns NULL if any step fails, leaving nothing to release. */ Dog *dog_new(const char *name, int age, const char *breed) { Dog *dog = ooc_new(&Dog_class); if (!dog) return NULL; /* * Let Animal build the part it owns, including the private `_id`, then * take over the vtable with Dog's own. */ if (animal_init(&dog->animal, name, age) != 0) { ooc_release(dog); return NULL; } dog->animal.vtable = &vt; dog->breed = dupstr(breed); if (!dog->breed) { ooc_release(dog); return NULL; } return dog; }