[Lazarus] How to cast a Interface to a Object in Lazaeus

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Martin Schreiber wrote:
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>> On Friday 13 March 2015 10:49:43 aradeonas wrote:
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>>> OK,So in the end how can I cast a Interface to a Object in Lazarus?
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>> I usually add a "function getinstance(): <theBaseImplemetationClass>" to
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>> interface definition.
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> Which goes completely against the very purpose of interfaces.
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> If you need this, you should not be using interfaces to begin with.
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> The only possible excuse is an external requirement to use interfaces.

+1

Marcos Douglas