Getting Class of Object

I'm iterating through an array of ModelObjects and want to single out those that are of class WaterHeater? Is there a method that returns the class of the current object? Not sure how to word this question. When I get the class of the object, it is ModelObject. However, I know from looking at the model that it's class WaterHeater. Whenever I use the method supplyComponents, it returns the component as a model object.

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joekers

asked 2016-09-07 12:29:52 -0500

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__AmirRoth__

updated 2017-04-16 14:42:36 -0500

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Using .name under IddObject will return a string of the OS object name.

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Adam Hilton

answered 2016-09-07 13:02:52 -0500

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There are a few ways to do this:

modelObjects = model.getHVACComponents

waterHeaters = []
modelObjects.each do |obj|
  if obj.to_WaterHeaterMixed.is_initialized
    obj = obj.to_WaterHeaterMixed.get #converts the object to a waterHeaterMixed object
    waterHeaters << obj
  end
end

waterHeaters.each do |obj|
  puts "#{obj.name}"
  puts "#{obj.class}"
end

#Alternatively 
waterHeaters = model.getWaterHeaterMixeds