Re: NSKeyedArchiever and XML Format
Re: NSKeyedArchiever and XML Format
- Subject: Re: NSKeyedArchiever and XML Format
- From: Martin Wierschin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:32:39 -0800
[a encodeObject:p forKey:@"root"];
Does using:
[a encodeRootObject:p];
instead of the line above make it work as expected?
A good idea, but IIRC that did not work. In fact, I think it
produced an archive that silently failed to be read back by the
stock +[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:] convenience
method.
While the documentation for that method itself makes no mention of
that fact, the documentation at http://developer.apple.com/
documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Archiving/Tasks/decoding.htm does
say "NSKeyedUnarchiver requires that the object graph in the
archive was encoded with one of NSKeyedArchiver’s convenience class
methods, such as archiveRootObject:toFile:." I'm not sure offhand
why this would be, and it is a bummer, but the "workaround" is to
just do the unarchiving symmetrically to the archiving, that is
read the file into an NSData and then unarchive that using -
decodeObject (or -decodeObjectForKey: if you encode with your own
root key(s) after all). I'll note that I haven't tested this myself
again, but that seems to be what the documentation is saying.
You're quite right, one ordinarily just uses a symmetric set of
methods to decode/encode the data. The problem I had was that I
needed to use -[NSUnarchiver decodeClassName:asClassName:] for
unarchiving a file previously encoded using the convenience method.
Certainly it's possible to use the class method +[NSUnarchiver
decodeClassName:asClassName:], but it seems silly to pollute the
global archiver class table for a single file.
I've filed a documentation bug as radar://6440080
~Martin
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