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Re: Determining object type



John,

If you're talking about Core Data then you can determine the attribute type by using the NSEntityDescription.

-----------------------------------------------------------
NSManagedObject myManagedObject; // assume this exists
NSAttributeDescription *attrDesc = [[[myManagedObject entity] attributesByName] valueForKey:@"myAttributeName"];
NSAttributeType attrType = [attrDesc attributeType];
-----------------------------------------------------------


See NSAttributeType for the constants used to designate the different types.

On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:21 AM, John Cebasek wrote:

Hi All:

I'm reading an XML file via:
data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
and
prop = (NSMutableArray *)CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(...);

If I call

temp = [prop objectForKey:key], I'd like to know what type of object is returned before I do anything with it.

isKindOfClass: for NSString works, but what about any other types. I know one of the values I need is a boolean, the data in the XML file is:

<key>ServerIsBound</key>
<true/>

but what do you use to test to make sure that it's a boolean? Or a data blob?

Any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks...


John Cebasek
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