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Struct `core.attribute.selector`

Use this attribute to attach an Objective-C selector to a method.


						
				struct selector
				;

This is a special compiler recognized attribute, it has several requirements, which all will be enforced by the compiler:

The attribute can only be attached to methods or constructors which have Objective-C linkage. That is, a method or a constructor in a class or interface declared as
```
extern(Objective-C)
```
.
It cannot be attached to a method or constructor that is a template
The number of colons in the string need to match the number of arguments the method accept.
It can only be used once in a method declaration

Examples

extern (Objective-C)
class NSObject
{
 this() @selector("init");
 static NSObject alloc() @selector("alloc");
 NSObject initWithUTF8String(in char* str) @selector("initWithUTF8String:");
 ObjcObject copyScriptingValue(ObjcObject value, NSString key, NSDictionary properties)
     @selector("copyScriptingValue:forKey:withProperties:");
}

Authors

Jacob Carlborg

License

Boost License 1.0