Packaging Rule to ignore symbols that are parameters

[jtuchel]

Hi there,

I was helping a customer with packaging / auto packaging and couldn't find a packaging rule to get rid to some hundred errors in the packaging process.

The situation is this: the customer's application uses a framework that maintains metadata in Dictionaries with symbols as keys. There are lots of senders of

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propertyAt: #aSymbol

and

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propertyAt: #aSymbol put: something

.

Since theses symbols are names but not names of messages, the packager cannot find implementors of these.

I was looking for a packaging rule to ignore all symbols that are passedf into propertyAt: or propertyAt:put: but couldn't find one.
Am I right or just missing something?

And while we're at it: Is there a way of specifying only the parameter of a certain keyword (meaning only the first parameter to propertyAt:put:) to be ignored?

Is there a place to find some documentation for implementing such rules? I mean, more than "subclass Ep..Rule"

Thanks in advance

Joachim

[tc]

Hello,

Every project I worked on used 'SubApplication class>>#packagerIgnoreSelectors' in each application along with the other packaging methods:

packagerIncludeSelectors
packagerIncludeClassNames
etc.

--tc

[jtuchel]

Hi Taylor,

if we used the approach with packagerIncludeSelectors we'd have to provide a list of all symbols from the metadata. That would surely by a working solution, I just thought about doing it that way the moment I read your answer.

Not the perfect solution but should be working nicely.

Thanks for getting the obvious into my train of thoughts