Objective-C: Get list of subclasses from superclass

Question

In Objective-C is there a way to ask a Class if there are any Subclass implementations.

I have a Base class which has multiple subclasses. I would like to loop throu

Answer 1

This function gives you all subclasses of a class:

#import 

NSArray *ClassGetSubclasses(Class parentClass)
{
  int numClasses = objc_getClassList(NULL, 0);
  Class *classes = NULL;

  classes = (__unsafe_unretained Class *)malloc(sizeof(Class) * numClasses);
  numClasses = objc_getClassList(classes, numClasses);

  NSMutableArray *result = [NSMutableArray array];
  for (NSInteger i = 0; i < numClasses; i++)
  {
    Class superClass = classes[i];
    do
    {
      superClass = class_getSuperclass(superClass);
    } while(superClass && superClass != parentClass);

    if (superClass == nil)
    {
      continue;
    }

    [result addObject:classes[i]];
  }

  free(classes);

  return result;
}

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