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/*`)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 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"
 }