Objective-C Runtime: best way to check if class conforms to protocol?

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LearnCocos2D picture LearnCocos2D · Aug 9, 2010 · Viewed 63.7k times · Source

I have a Class (but no instance) and need to know if it conforms to a certain protocol. However, Class can be subclassed several times and class_conformsToProtocol() ignores protocols declared on superclasses.

I could just use class_getSuperclass() and recursively check all the classes in the hierarchy upwards until the superclass is nil. However I wonder if that might be inefficient for deeply nested class hierarchies, and maybe there's a nicer way to do that?

In other words, how is the NSObject method conformsToProtocol best implemented using Objective-C runtime methods so that it finds protocols on superclasses?

 [myObject conformsToProtocol:@protocol(MyProtocol)];

If I'm on the right track with recursively going up the class hierarchy just let me know.

Answer

Wevah picture Wevah · Aug 9, 2010

According to the docs,

[MyClass conformsToProtocol:@protocol(MyProtocol)];

should work.

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