probably fix exposing attributes

now they're aliases… still completely untested, because:

* we're not exposing attributes on direct dispatch (`bos-dispatch/invoke`)
* we don't have a decent way to add attributes to classes (`bos-sugar/*`)

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 49 deletions

diff --git a/bos-meta-attribute.sh b/bos-meta-attribute.sh
index 9d7a4dd..1153d3a 100644
--- a/bos-meta-attribute.sh
+++ b/bos-meta-attribute.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ function bos/meta/attribute/store-for-into() {
     local bos_meta_attribute_class bos_meta_attribute_objid
     bos-object/unpack-self-into bos_meta_attribute_class bos_meta_attribute_objid "$2"
 
+    # meta-look! we can't depend on bos-dispatch/invoke or
+    # bos/meta/class/invoke to set these up
+
+    # the `if` is there because bos-meta-bootstrap.sh sets these manually
+    if [[ -z "$attribute_name" ]]; then
+        local bos_meta_attribute_get_name; $self get-attribute-name-into bos_meta_attribute_get_name
+        local bos_meta_attribute_get_type; $self get-attribute-type-into bos_meta_attribute_get_type
+        local bos_meta_attribute_get_class; $self get-associated-class-into bos_meta_attribute_get_class
+
+        local attribute_name="$bos_meta_attribute_get_name"
+        local attribute_type="$bos_meta_attribute_get_type"
+        local associated_class="$bos_meta_attribute_get_class"
+    fi
+
     "bos-namespaces/store-${attribute_type}-for-into" "$1" attribute "$attribute_name" "$associated_class" "$bos_meta_attribute_class" "$bos_meta_attribute_objid"
 }
 
diff --git a/bos-meta-class.sh b/bos-meta-class.sh
index bd83c29..586eee5 100644
--- a/bos-meta-class.sh
+++ b/bos-meta-class.sh
@@ -143,40 +143,6 @@ function bos/meta/class/set-attribute-by-name() {
     return 0
 }
 
-
-function bos/meta/class/find-attribute-into() {
-    local -n bos_meta_class_find_attribute_result="$1"
-    local bos_meta_class_find_attribute_class="$2"
-    local bos_meta_class_find_attribute_attribute_name="$3"
-
-    local mro_store; $self mro-for-into mro_store "$bos_meta_class_find_attribute_class"
-    local -n mro="$mro_store"
-
-    # minimal MRO: the class itself
-    if [[ "${#mro[@]}" -eq 0 ]]; then
-        mro=( "$bos_meta_class_find_attribute_class" )
-    fi
-
-    local bos_meta_class_for_class
-    local bos_class_from_mro
-
-    for bos_class_from_mro in "${mro[@]}"; do
-        bos-meta/metaclass-instance-for-class-into bos_meta_class_for_class "$bos_class_from_mro"
-
-        >&2 echo "from mro(${mro[*]})=$bos_class_from_mro meta=$bos_meta_class_for_class"
-
-        $bos_meta_class_for_class get-attribute-by-name-into bos_meta_class_find_attribute_result "$bos_meta_class_find_attribute_attribute_name"
-
-        if [[ -n "$bos_meta_class_find_attribute_result" ]]; then
-            return 0
-        fi
-    done
-
-    # TODO: better error / failure
-    >&2 echo "attribute $bos_meta_class_find_attribute_attribute_name not found via class $bos_meta_class_find_attribute_class"
-    return 1
-}
-
 # the method dispatcher
 function bos/meta/class/invoke() {
     local bos_invoke_class="$1";shift
@@ -202,34 +168,32 @@ function bos/meta/class/invoke() {
     local ffsname="to_invoke_${#FUNCNAME[*]}"
     $self find-method-into "$ffsname" "$bos_invoke_class" "$bos_invoke_start_from_class" "$bos_invoke_method"
 
+    local bos_invoke_target_obj
+    bos-object-id/pack-self-into bos_invoke_target_obj "$bos_invoke_class" "$bos_invoke_object_id"
+
     local bos_invoke_target_class="${!ffsname%/*}"
+    local bos_invoke_target_metaclass_instance
+    bos-meta/metaclass-instance-for-class-into bos_invoke_target_metaclass_instance "$bos_invoke_target_class"
+
     local bos_invoke_attrs_attr
-    $self find-attribute-into bos_invoke_attrs_attr "$bos_invoke_target_class" 'class_attributes'
+    $bos_invoke_target_metaclass_instance get-attribute-by-name-into bos_invoke_attrs_attr 'class_attributes'
     >&2 echo "for (${bos_invoke_class}->${bos_invoke_target_class}) class_attributes = $bos_invoke_attrs_attr"
     
     if [[ -n "$bos_invoke_attrs_attr" ]]; then
         local -A bos_invoke_attrs
-        $bos_invoke_attrs_attr get-value-into bos_invoke_attrs "$self"
 
-        local bos_invoke_attr_name bos_invoke_attr_obj bos_invoke_attr_type
+        $bos_invoke_attrs_attr get-value-into bos_invoke_attrs "$bos_invoke_target_metaclass_instance"
+
+        local bos_invoke_attr_name bos_invoke_attr_store
         for bos_invoke_attr_name in "${!bos_invoke_attrs[@]}"; do
             bos_invoke_attr_obj="${bos_invoke_attrs[$bos_invoke_attr_name]}"
 
-            >&2 echo "getting attribute type from $bos_invoke_attr_name=($bos_invoke_attr_obj)"
-            $bos_invoke_attr_obj get-attribute-type-into bos_invoke_attr_type
-
-            case "$bos_invoke_attr_type" in
-                scalar) local "$bos_invoke_attr_name" ;;
-                array) local -a "$bos_invoke_attr_name" ;;
-                assoc) local -A "$bos_invoke_attr_name" ;;
-            esac
-
-            $bos_invoke_attr_obj get-value-into "$bos_invoke_attr_name" "$self"
+            $bos_invoke_attr_obj store-for-into bos_invoke_attr_store "$bos_invoke_target_obj"
+            local -n "$bos_invoke_attr_name"="$bos_invoke_attr_store"
         done
     fi
 
-    local self
-    bos-object-id/pack-self-into self "$bos_invoke_class" "$bos_invoke_object_id"
+    local self="$bos_invoke_target_obj"
 
     # call it
     eval "\"\$$ffsname\" \"\$@\""