Published Methods

API ID: CountDeclMethodPublished
Languages: Pascal
Targets: Architectures, Classes, Project

Number of local published methods.

Object Pascal's published visibility is accessible from anywhere, just like public, but published members also get run-time type information (RTTI) generated for them, which the IDE's Object Inspector and form-streaming system use to discover and persist them at design time. Properties are published most often, but methods — such as event handlers — can be published too.

For example:

unit sample;

interface

type
  TShape = class(TPersistent)
  strict private
    FArea: Double;
    procedure CalcArea;
  strict protected
    procedure Resize;
  published
    procedure NotifyChanged;
  public
    property Area: Double read FArea write FArea;
  end;

implementation

procedure TShape.CalcArea;
begin
  FArea := 0;
end;

procedure TShape.Resize;
begin
end;

procedure TShape.NotifyChanged;
begin
end;

end.

NotifyChanged is declared published, giving CountDeclMethodPublished = 1.

See Public Methods for the plain (non-published) counterpart, and Strict Private Methods/Strict Protected Methods for Object Pascal's other visibility levels.

Targets By Language:

• Pascal: Project, Class, Interface

Configuration:

• For projects and architectures, this metric must also be enabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Projects and Architectures" with the "Show aggregated class metrics" option. Enabling this option can be time consuming.
• This metric can be disabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Object Orientated" with the "Show method and variable count metrics" option.