Re: Storing Instances of a structure in a file
Re: Storing Instances of a structure in a file
- Subject: Re: Storing Instances of a structure in a file
- From: Phil <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:57:54 +1200
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Adil Saleem <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to store instances of a structure in a file so that my application can retreive them and read them.(Basically they are different configuration presets for the application) I also want each instance that is stored to be unique. I know this becomes a typical database problem but i don't want to use database.
>
> Is there any Cocoa API that can help me with this problem ? I know it can be done in plain C language, but that would be lengthy and error-prone. If there is anything in Cocoa that can help me, it would be great.
>
If you're talking about plain-C structs then you can wrap them up in
NSValue or NSData instances, which you can then write out with an
NSCoder (or if you have lots of them, put them into an NSArray and do
the same).
Phil
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