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Re: NSDictionary valueForKeyPath:


  • Subject: Re: NSDictionary valueForKeyPath:
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:21:21 +0000


On 14 Dec 2008, at 16:06, Ken Thomases wrote:


I was surprised to learn that a hierarchy of NSDictionary objects can be queried with valueForKeyPath:


NSDictionary *dict0 = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"got me!", @"2", nil];
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:dict0, @"1", nil];
NSLog([dict valueForKeyPath:@"1.2"]);


This is powerful functionality.

Am I blind (again), or is this fact omitted from the docs? Or is it implicit from the nature of KVC?

It's implicit in two facts:

1) The default implementation of -valueForKeyPath: resolves down to a series of -valueForKey: calls
2) The override of -valueForKey: on NSDictionary resolves to a call to -objectForKey: in most cases


Thanks Ken

The docs on NSDictionary -valueForKey: do mention it.
Blind and stupid.

Jonathan Mitchell

Central Conscious Unit
http://www.mugginsoft.com




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