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GKMatch is weird. You don’t ever instantiate GKMatch directly. Instead you use GKMatchMaker as a type of “factory” to instantiate GKMatch objects.

There are basically 2 ways to get a GKMatch up and running.

1) BOOTY CALLS: I call out people I want to have sex with have a match with BY NAME.

2) RANDOM ENCOUNTER: All players initiated THEIR OWN random partner search, and GameCenter “hooked them up” with a random partner.

First we’ll cover booty calls, then random encounters.

1. Booty call

BOOTY CALL works as follows. ONE OF THE PLAYERS (the “horny dude”) INVITES ALL THE OTHER PLAYERS BY NAME. He can invite as many players as he wishes (mm hmm). ALL PLAYERS WHO WANT TO ACCEPT INVITES BY NAME __MUST__ HAVE REGISTERED TO RECEIVE “BOOTY CALLS” BY SETTING [GKMatchmaker sharedMatchmaker].inviteHandler. We’ll call those players “the booty”.

// ALL PLAYERS OFFERING UP THEIR BOOTIES FOR TAPPING MUST
// SET THEIR INVITEHANDLER:
[GKMatchmaker sharedMatchmaker].inviteHandler = ^( GKInvite *acceptedInvite, NSArray *playersToInvite )
{
  // THIS RUNS FOR PLAYER WHO GOT A BYNAME INVITE ONLY
  printf( "You got an invitation to join a match started by `%s`\n", [acceptedInvite.inviter UTF8String] );
  
  // ACCEPTS THE MATCH:
  [ [GKMatchmaker sharedMatchmaker] matchForInvite:acceptedInvite completionHandler:^( GKMatch *theMatch, NSError *nsError ) {
    if( nsError ) {
      error( nsError, "matchForInvite:acceptedInvite" ) ; // prints the error (using my `error` function)
      return ;
    }

    // KEEP A COPY OF THE GKMATCH OBJECT.
    Game->match = theMatch ; /////////////// YOU MUST DO THIS.
    // IF YOU DON'T "RETAIN" THE MATCH OBJECT THEN IT GOES AWAY AND THE MATCH NEVER STARTS.
      
    // ATTACH YOUR GKMatchDelegate.  __YOU MUST DO THIS__
    // otherwise you have no chance in hell of making a GKMatch work.
    // I instantiated myGameMatchDelegate OUTSIDE this function.
    // instantiating it here gives an ARC error. 
    theMatch.delegate = myGameMatchDelegate ; // myGameMatchDelegate implements GKMatchDelegate protocol

    // Now after this, your GKMatchDelegate match:player:didChangeState: event will trigger
    // automatically.  You can continue to do network setup there.  From that point forward
    // the machines are "having sex" (network connected).
 } ] ;
} ;

The “horny dude” who initiates the booty call does so like this:

GKMatchRequest *request = [[GKMatchRequest alloc] init] ; 
request.minPlayers = 2 ; // INCLUDES YOU.  "The minimum number of players must be at least 2."
request.maxPlayers = 2 ;
request.defaultNumberOfPlayers = 2 ;
request.playerAttributes = 0 ; // NO SPECIAL ATTRIBS
request.playerGroup = 0 ;

// Only for when you have another user to play with BYNAME.
request.playersToInvite = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"G:1928347891235", nil] ; //G:1928347891235 is
// the ID of the player I want to booty call.

// A block to be called when a response from an invited BY NAME player is returned to your game.
request.inviteeResponseHandler = ^( NSString *playerID, GKInviteeResponse response )
{
  printf( "\n*** `%s` RESPONDED TO YOUR INVITE WITH `%s`\n", 
  [playerID UTF8String], GKInviteeResponseName[response] ) ;
} ;

request.inviteMessage = @"COME PLAY WITH ME" ; // This appears in a game center notification notice.
  
// This is like a GKMatch constructor for the caller.
// It usually completes almost IMMEDIATELY.
[ [GKMatchmaker sharedMatchmaker] findMatchForRequest:request
   withCompletionHandler:^( GKMatch *newMatch, NSError *nsError )
  {
    // THIS RUNS FOR THE INVITER IMMEDIATELY AFTER SENDING ANY findMatchForRequest
    if( nsError ) {
      error( nsError, "[MM findMatchForRequest] failed" ) ;
      return ;
    }
      
    // This is the chance to finish setting up the GKMatch object.
    newMatch.delegate = myGameDelegate ; // YOU HAVE TO SET THE DELEGATE.
    Game->match = newMatch ; // YOU MUST DO THIS.
    // IF YOU DON'T RETAIN THE MATCH OBJECT THEN IT GOES AWAY AND THE MATCH NEVER STARTS.
  }
] ;

So after the booty call goes out, OTHER PLAYERS RECEIVE THE INVITATIONS AND ACCEPT IT (Note: requires VIA GC OVERLAY).

2. RANDOM ENCOUNTERS

BOTH PLAYERS ARE LOOKING FOR “RANDOM ENCOUNTERS”. They put on makeup/shave as appropriate. They then EACH INVOKE findMatchForRequest, BUT WITHOUT SPECIFYING OTHER PLAYER NAMES TO HOOK UP WITH. In other words, they’re looking to hook up with just anybody. GAMECENTER WILL “HOOK THEM UP” WITH RANDOM PARTNERS (TO HAVE SEX WITH).

The code that both players call then, to say to GameCenter they are DTF with just about anyone, is very similar to the code used “make a booty call” above. You just don’t fill out the playerIDs field (leave it nil).

GKMatchRequest *request = [[GKMatchRequest alloc] init] ; 
request.minPlayers = 2 ; // INCLUDES YOU.  "The minimum number of players must be at least 2."
request.maxPlayers = 2 ;
request.defaultNumberOfPlayers = 2 ;
request.playerAttributes = 0 ; // NO SPECIAL ATTRIBS
request.playerGroup = 0 ;

request.playersToInvite = nil ; // NIL THAT
  
// This is like a GKMatch constructor for the caller.
// It completes IMMEDIATELY.
[ [GKMatchmaker sharedMatchmaker] findMatchForRequest:request
   withCompletionHandler:^( GKMatch *newMatch, NSError *nsError )
  {
    // THIS RUNS FOR THE INVITER IMMEDIATELY AFTER SENDING ANY findMatchForRequest
    if( nsError ) {
      error( nsError, "[MM findMatchForRequest] failed" ) ;
      return ;
    }
      
    // This is the chance to finish setting up the GKMatch object.
    newMatch.delegate = myGameDelegate ; // YOU HAVE TO SET THE DELEGATE.
    Game->match = newMatch ; // YOU MUST DO THIS.
    // IF YOU DON'T RETAIN THE MATCH OBJECT THEN IT GOES AWAY AND THE MATCH NEVER STARTS.
  }
] ;

I don’t have any real technical reason for hating exceptions. I simply hate exceptions in a stylistic sense.

Exceptions are a retroactive way of handling error conditions. They kind of say “Yeah try this, if that doesn’t work, then do that.”

try
{
  to parse the value out of the string
}
catch( ValueParsingException ex )
{
  not a valid value..?
}

Seems like a manager with a bad attitude. Like “Yeah try it, whatever, and if that doesn’t work, then do this other thing”. Sure, technically it’s very clear what the code is doing. But to me, (mostly because I’ve seen too many 200 line try/catch blocks), try/catch will always be a code structure very readily abused.

I generally hate people that say they will do one thing, then partway through they say “No, go back” and start doing something else. But that is exactly the language of a try/catch block.

Exceptions are like walking across the street without looking:

try
{
  to cross the street
}
catch( BusHitException busException )
{
  go to hospital?
}

I much prefer a series of rigorous if statements to try/catch blocks where possible. I’d much rather have code like this:

if( the string is valid )
{
  parse the value out of the string
}
else
{
  not a valid value.
}

So in other words, look before crossing:

if( there are no cars )
{
  cross the street
}
else
{
  wait
}

That would be more like a while loop, but you get the idea.

If statements say “I’m watching what is going on, this code knows what its doing.”

Sure, you can achieve the exact same ends with try/catch as with if/else. But try/catch all too often is used as sloppy code. I hate when exceptions are used in the generic “If something goes wrong then just throw that general error “Uh there was an exception” and printstacktrace.”

Have you ever seen one of those 200 line try blocks? Disgusting. People use them because they don’t know/they don’t care what is going wrong.

Try/catch can too easily be abused. That’s why I hate it as a programming construct.

Funky Inheritance

Or functor-based inheritance

Funky inheritance is my name for when you allow attachment of functors to specify behavior instead of always just subclassing.

This came up recently in some UI event handling code that I was writing. Buttons come and go, dialogs appear and get dismissed. Each dialog dismissal button (okButton) needs something specific to happen, but that same functionality is extremely unlikely to be reused in another dialog.

Normally, to write an object type that has customizable behavior (by a subclass), you would write a base class like this:

class Dialog
{
  virtual void onDismiss() = 0 ;
};

So, when you subclass Dialog, you override onDismiss to provide custom behavior that occurs when the dialog is dismissed (assume onDismiss would be invoked by a window manager).

class FileOpenDialog : public Dialog
{
  virtual void onDismiss()
  {
    // stuff to do when the FileOpenDialog is dismissed..
  }
};

So, that’s the regular (classical) inheritance pattern. Every time you want different functionality onDismiss(), you’d write a new subclass of Dialog. Another way to get custom code to run onDismiss is to allow onDismiss() to accept a functor that can be invoked …

class FileOpenDialog : public Dialog
{
  virtual void onDismiss( function <void ()> runThisAfter )
  {
    // stuff to do when the FileOpenDialog is dismissed..
    // then..
    runThisAfter() ;
  }
};

OR

You could write onDismiss as a functor in base class Dialog instead of using classical inheritance here:

class Dialog
{
  function< void (Dialog* that) > onDismiss ;
};

Now onDismiss is a functor (that may or may not be set).

So then customized behavior is by instance, not by class. Creating a FileOpenDialog object would then be like:

Dialog fileOpenDialog ;
fileOpenDialog.onDismiss = [](Dialog* that) {
  // Do something with `that`, which acts as `this`
  // if this were a member function ;)
} ;

When the window object handler finds out a dialog has been dismissed, it invokes the onDismiss handler if it has been set.

// It is detected that fileOpenDialog needs to be closed:
if( fileOpenDialog.onDismiss )
  fileOpenDialog.onDismiss( fileOpenDialog ) ;

// Above line manually passes `this`.
// If I am not mistaken, this is considered "Pythonic" (just kidding,
// but Python does require passing of self in a similarly visible fashion)

This may come across to you as very JavaScripty- or follow a prototypal inheritance pattern. But it actually isn’t prototypal inheritance, because objects do not inherit from other objects. Each instance of Dialog has its own behavior, that is not repeated by any other instance of Dialog.

Of course, this would need some more detail and fleshing out to really work. But this is the jist of funky inheritance. Regular inheritance is class-wide customization. Funky inheritance is instance-wide customization. Funky inheritance is great for when you need to define custom behavior (often one-off, for a button or a widget) without having to define an entire subclass.

Drawbacks of Funky Inheritance

Functors are unable to persist their own internal running state except as static variables. However statics inside a functor are inaccessible from outside the functor. This means modification of a functor’s internal values is difficult/impossible from outside the functor. So, that kind of sucks sometimes.

One way you can modify a functor’s internal state variables is to capture a pointer before entering the functor:

Object * someObject = new Object() ;
functor = [ someObject ]() {
  // now if someObject is modified outside the functor,
  // I will use "the most up to date" version of someObject.
} ;

Functors seem to be best used to send global state messages or somehow modify global state. For example, if a FileOpenDialog is modal, it may flip off the `modal` flag inside your window manager when it is dismissed. Functors are also useful to modify the object running the functor’s state as well.

GameCenter isn’t easy to work with. For one it’s networking, and networking errors are hard to debug because there’s no natural UI. debug print messages is all you’ve got. It doesn’t help that GC is none too detailed on what you did wrong, and sometimes weird errors can occur if you use the API incorrectly.

1. A match request by name can take up to 2 minutes to reach the remote device. Unprepared for this I’d just sit there trying the request again and again, wondering why it wasn’t working.

2. The iOS simulator doesn’t seem to work for GKMatchmaker requests. I don’t know why this is, but the iOS simulator cannot even startBrowsingForNearbyPlayersWithReachableHandler.

3.