[graalvm-users] How to dynamically check type

[Rodrigo Botafogo]

Hello,

Is there a way to dynamically check the type of a Truffle::Interop object?

For instance, in this code:

# evaluate an integer in R and return the result of this evaluation
# this is just an integer
var = R.eval("4")
puts ("Double evaluated in R: #{var}")
p var.is_a? Integer

>> false

# Create a list in R, that is anonymous in R but available to Ruby.
# We are now using method_missing to resolve the 'c' method.
val = R.c(1, 2, 3, 4)
p val

>> #<Truffle::Interop::Foreign at 299cab08>

p val.is_a? Integer

will raise an exception on the val.is_a? Integer

Internal error occured: org.graalvm.polyglot.PolyglotException:
org.truffleruby.language.control.RaiseException: Message not supported:
INVOKE (UnsupportedMessageException)

I understand the message and why, but this kind of breaks the ability to
check types dynamically and every code that does that.

As a programmer, I would like to see Interop inherit from the Object Class
so that it works as any other Ruby object.  Better yet, if I could identify
at runtime the language the Interop pointer is referencing: Ruby, Python,
etc.  Is this possible?

Probably I'm missing something... comments?


Thanks a lot

-- 
Rodrigo Botafogo
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