Insert class in hierarchy

[John Lokanis]

I have a project with a large number of classes that inherit from a common parent.  The parent has a method that I want to override in all the child classes.  The override method will be the same for all children.  Instead of creating individual overrides in each child, I want to create a new class that inherits from the parent and only includes the common override method.  I then want to change all the children that currently inherit from the parent to now inherit from this new class.  That allows them all to get the new override method.

What I don't want to do is manually change the inheritance on each of these child classes.  Instead I want to 'insert' the new class between the parent and all the children.

 

Does anyone know of an easy way to do this or maybe have a tool they scripted to solve this?

 

thanks,

-John

[Darren]

Assuming you have an easy way to get all the child classes into memory, something like this should do the trick:

 

[John Lokanis]

Awesome!  I will try that.       (feel kinda dumb I didn't think of this myself...)

[Chris_Collier]

I would think it should look something like this.  I've not tried running this...  You will need to ensure all children you want as children of the inserted class are in memory before running this, though I believe anything in an open project is in memory.

 

I hope this helps!