Hi, I'm stuck on a MATLAB OOP problem.
I have several enumeration classes that are subclasses to (the abstract) MySuperClass. For Example:
classdef MyEnum1 < MySuperClass
methods(Static)
function result = doWork()
allNames = string(enumeration('MyEnum1'));
result = foo(allNames);
end
end
enumeration
A
B
C
end
end
classdef MyEnum2 < MySuperClass
methods(Static)
function result = doWork()
allNames = string(enumeration('MyEnum2'));
result = foo(allNames);
end
end
enumeration
D
E
F
end
end
Then there is one function which all enumeration classes have in common, that does some work on the enumeration members names, in this case it's the static method doWork(), which is shown above.
I feel like it should be possible to define this method in the (abstract) superclass, since it does the same thing every time and only operates on a different list of enumeration member names, which is dependent on the subclass calling the function. But I can't figure out how to dynamically reference the subclass that is calling the static method.
The following solution seems to work, but I'm giving up the (Static) of my method. Ideally, I would prefer a solution in which I can doWork without having to create an instance of the respective subclass/enumeration class.
classdef(Abstract) MySuperClass
methods
function result = doWork(obj)
allNames = string(enumeration(obj));
result = foo(allNames);
end
end
end
What I really want is something like this:
classdef(Abstract) MySuperClass
methods (Static)
function result = doWork
allNames = string(enumeration(?????));
result = foo(allNames);
end
end
end
so that I may finally use the static method of the superclass as follows:
MyEnum1.doWork
MyEnum2.doWork
Without having to copypaste identical code into each enumeration's classdef.
Thank you so much in advance for your insights!
