reading NSDate from old-style plist?
reading NSDate from old-style plist?
- Subject: reading NSDate from old-style plist?
- From: Barry Wark <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:23:52 -0700
I'm trying to use NSString's propertyList: method to parse the plist
returned by the xgrid command line util[1]. xgrid results are printed
to stdout as old-style plists. Unfortunately, the old-style parse
appears to choke on dates:
{
jobAttributes = {
activeCPUPower = 0;
applicationIdentifier = PyXG;
dateNow = 2005-09-01 13:15:25 -0700;
dateStarted = 2005-09-01 12:53:29 -0700;
dateStopped = 2005-09-01 12:53:31 -0700;
dateSubmitted = 2005-09-01 12:53:27 -0700;
jobStatus = Finished;
percentDone = 100;
taskCount = 1;
undoneTaskCount = 0;
};
}
plutil (and propertyList:) gives the error
XML parser error:
Unexpected character { at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Missing ';' on line 5
>From the docs, it looks like old-style plists can't contain dates.
Does anyone know of a workaround to this or am I stuck?
Thanks,
Barry
[1] As you can see from the plist below, I'm using PyXG in a python
script. Without the full NSRunLoop machinery, I'm not able to use the
XgridFoundation framework and so am stuck parsing the output of the
xgrid util.
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