Re: create object from class name held in String?
Re: create object from class name held in String?
- Subject: Re: create object from class name held in String?
- From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:55:40 -0500
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Darren Minifie <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have the situation where I need to dynamically create an object based on
> the value held in a string at runtime. I'm pretty sure the dynamic nature
> of objective-c would allow this, but I cant seem to find the right method on
> NSString or NSObject. I want to do this:
>
> NSString* someClass = @"Dog";
> Animal* anAnimal = [[someClass alloc] init];
>
> I know this isn't right, but I'm trying to use the value held in someClass
> as the name of the class I want to instantiate. thanks for the help.
NSClassFromString!
<https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Functions/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000055-BCIJDAJA>
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