Instance new Type (Golang)

So, if I understand your question correctly, you are asking about how you can create an object when you just have the name of the type as string. So, for example, you might have a string “MyStruct” and you want to create an object of this type. Unfortunately, that’s not easily possible because Go is … Read more

“No enclosing instance of type” error while calling method from another class in Android

In terms of the actual error here, if parseYouTubeAndYahoo class is a non-static inner class inside of your Activity, then you need an instance of the enclosing class in order to instantiate the inner class. So, you’ll need: MainActivity myActivity = new MainActivity(); MainActivity.parseYouTubeAndYahoo asyncTask = myActivity.new parseYouTubeAndYahoo(); However…. You really shouldn’t be instantiating non-static … Read more

Java: newInstance of class that has no default constructor

Call Class.getConstructor() and then Constructor.newInstance() passing in the appropriate arguments. Sample code: import java.lang.reflect.*; public class Test { public Test(int x) { System.out.println(“Constuctor called! x = ” + x); } // Don’t just declare “throws Exception” in real code! public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Class<Test> clazz = Test.class; Constructor<Test> ctor = clazz.getConstructor(int.class); … Read more

Why won’t dynamically adding a `__call__` method to an instance work?

Double-underscore methods are always looked up on the class, never the instance. See Special method lookup for new-style classes: For new-style classes, implicit invocations of special methods are only guaranteed to work correctly if defined on an object’s type, not in the object’s instance dictionary. That’s because the type might need to support the same … Read more

What makes a jQuery object show up as an array in Chrome’s Developer Tools?

From http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.makeArray/: Many methods, both in jQuery and in JavaScript in general, return objects that are array-like. For example, the jQuery factory function $() returns a jQuery object that has many of the properties of an array (a length, the [] array access operator, etc.), but is not exactly the same as an array and … Read more