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Re: Keyed encoding


  • Subject: Re: Keyed encoding
  • From: Will Mason <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT)

Your code looks good, except that you're using keyed-archiving methods
with a non-keyed archiver. I would use NSKeyedArchiver instead of
NSArchiver. I'm pretty sure that's the problem.

Take care,
Will

--- Andy Bettis <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 21 Jun 2005, at 17:43, Will Mason wrote:
>
> >> The arrays contain custom class objects. For each of these I have
> >> defined initWithCoder methods that use encodeObject:forKey,
> >> encodeBool:forKey, etc. calls to archive their data members. The
> >> calls to encodeObject:forKey only pass built-in class objects
> >> (NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate).
> >
> > initWithCoder: is for decoding, not for encoding, so calling
> > encodeObject:forKey: in initWithCoder: is not very productive. Have
>
> > you
> > defined encodeWithCoder: for your custom classes, putting the
> > encodeObject:forKey: in that method?
>
> Oops, naughty fingers not typing what I intended! My classes have
> methods like this:
>
> - (void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder*) inCoder
> {
>      [super encodeWithCoder:inCoder];
>
>      [inCoder encodeBool:mIncome forKey:kIncomeLabel];
>      [inCoder encodeBool:mExpenditure forKey:kExpenditureLabel];
> }
>
> - (id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder*) inCoder
> {
>      if (self = [super initWithCoder:inCoder]) {
>          [self setIncome:[inCoder decodeBoolForKey:kIncomeLabel]];
>          [self setExpenditure:[inCoder
> decodeBoolForKey:kExpenditureLabel]];
>      }
>
>      return(self);
> }
>
> While my document class has:
>
> - (NSData *)dataRepresentationOfType:(NSString *)aType
> {
>      NSMutableDictionary* theDict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
>      [theDict setValue:[self categories] forKey:kCategoriesLabel];
>      [theDict setValue:[self items] forKey:kItemsLabel];
>
>      return([NSArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:theDict]);
> }
>
> - (BOOL)loadDataRepresentation:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString
> *)aType
> {
>      NSDictionary* theDict = [NSUnarchiver
> unarchiveObjectWithData:data];
>
>      [mCategories release];
>      mCategories = [theDict valueForKey:kCategoriesLabel];
>      [mCategories retain];
>
>      [mItems release];
>      mItems = [theDict valueForKey:kItemsLabel];
>      [mItems retain];
>
>      return(YES);
> }
>
>
> Rev. Andy
>

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