Problem
When you run a script that calls a RhinoCommon method that has overloads , you might see the following error:
Message: Multiple targets could match
More Information
.NET supports overloading methods by both number of arguments and type of arguments.
When IronPython code calls an overloaded method, it tries to select one of the overloads at runtime based on the number and type of arguments passed to the method, and also names of any keyword arguments.
In most cases, the expected overload gets selected. However, IronPython will raise a TypeError if there are conversions to more than one of the overloads:
To control the exact overload that gets called, use the Overloads method on method objects:
Example
For a practical example, let’s look at RhinoCommon’s Brep.Split method, which has five overloads:
// Splits a Brep into pieces using a Brep as a cutter.
public Brep[] Split(Brep splitter, double intersectionTolerance)
// Splits a Brep into pieces using Breps as cutters.
public Brep[] Split(IEnumerable<Brep> cutters, double intersectionTolerance)
// Splits a Brep into pieces using curves, at least partially on the Brep, as cutters.
public Brep[] Split(IEnumerable<Curve> cutters, double intersectionTolerance)
// Splits a Brep into pieces using a Brep as a cutter.
public Brep[] Split(Brep splitter, double intersectionTolerance, out bool toleranceWasRaised)
// Splits a Brep into pieces using a combination of curves, to be extruded, and Breps as cutters.
public Brep[] Split(IEnumerable<GeometryBase> cutters, Vector3d normal, bool planView, double intersectionTolerance)
If you run the following example code, which should split a Brep with one or more cutting Breps:
import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
id = rs.GetObject("Select Brep to split", filter = 8+16, preselect = True)
brep = rs.coercebrep(id)
ids = rs.GetObjects("Select cutting Breps", filter = 8+16,)
cutters = [rs.coercebrep(item) for item in ids]
tol = sc.doc.ModelAbsoluteTolerance
out_breps = brep.Split(cutters, tol)
new_ids = [sc.doc.Objects.AddBrep(brep) for brep in out_breps]
You will receive the following error:
Message: Multiple targets could match: Split(IEnumerable[Curve], float), Split(IEnumerable[Brep], float)
To use the second overload, use the Overloads method in this manner:
out_breps = brep.Split.Overloads[IEnumerable[Rhino.Geometry.Brep], System.Double](cutters, tol)
Here is the full working sample:
import System
import System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable as IEnumerable
import Rhino
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import scriptcontext as sc
id = rs.GetObject("Select Brep to split", filter = 8+16, preselect = True)
brep = rs.coercebrep(id)
ids = rs.GetObjects("Select cutting Breps", filter = 8+16,)
cutters = [rs.coercebrep(item) for item in ids]
tol = sc.doc.ModelAbsoluteTolerance
out_breps = brep.Split.Overloads[IEnumerable[Rhino.Geometry.Brep], System.Double](cutters, tol)
new_ids = [sc.doc.Objects.AddBrep(brep) for brep in out_breps]
