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Re: Is NSKeyedArchiver portable / reliable?

Subject: Re: Is NSKeyedArchiver portable / reliable?
From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:15:20 -0700


On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:

1. Would this work across different machines?

If by "different machines" you mean PPC, Intel, 32-bit, 64-bit, iPhone, iPod, etc. then yes. NSKeyedArchiver is documented as being architecture-independent. There are some subtle differences between architectures in what gets returned when you call @encode for a primitive type, but nothing you can't work around. Also, not all classes available on desktop OS X are available on the iPhone/iPod, but common ones ought to work.

2. Is there a risk that apple would change the serialization format,
thus breaking my app in the future?

No; that would break pretty much every desktop app if they did that.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>

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