How to swizzle a class method on iOS?

Ortwin Gentz picture Ortwin Gentz · Jul 16, 2010 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

Method swizzling works great for instance methods. Now, I need to swizzle a class method. Any idea how to do it?

Tried this but it doesn't work:

void SwizzleClassMethod(Class c, SEL orig, SEL new) {

Method origMethod = class_getClassMethod(c, orig);
Method newMethod = class_getClassMethod(c, new);

if(class_addMethod(c, orig, method_getImplementation(newMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(newMethod)))
    class_replaceMethod(c, new, method_getImplementation(origMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(origMethod));
else
    method_exchangeImplementations(origMethod, newMethod);
}

Answer

Ortwin Gentz picture Ortwin Gentz · Jul 16, 2010

Turns out, I wasn't far away. This implementation works for me:

void SwizzleClassMethod(Class c, SEL orig, SEL new) {

    Method origMethod = class_getClassMethod(c, orig);
    Method newMethod = class_getClassMethod(c, new);

    c = object_getClass((id)c);

    if(class_addMethod(c, orig, method_getImplementation(newMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(newMethod)))
        class_replaceMethod(c, new, method_getImplementation(origMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(origMethod));
    else
        method_exchangeImplementations(origMethod, newMethod);
}