[fpc-pascal] RTTI and generics: accessing specialized class instance

[leledumbo]

> You'll have the problem to know the specific class at compile time no
matter whether you use generics or inheritance

Not really, with inheritance, I can just cast the TObject returned by
GetObjectProp to the parent class (TGenClass). Because that's all I need:
accessing TGenClass members.

> If you want access to specific methods of the published then I suggest you
> to either have that class implement an interface or to have it inherit
> from a common base class that you can check for using "is" (yes, a generic
> can inherit from a normal class without problems).

Aha! That's right, I can implement the methods/fields/whatever in a normal
class which is then extended by the generic class. This is a hybrid
generics-inheritance approach, should've thought about it. Thanks for the
enlightenment.



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