Compatibility of Data iPhone / Mac
Compatibility of Data iPhone / Mac
- Subject: Compatibility of Data iPhone / Mac
- From: Eiko Bleicher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 01:35:39 +0200
When transferring data between Mac and iPhone/iPad, serializing via NSKeysedArchiver seems simple and easy. Wrapping up some "trivial" Objects like NSData, NSDictionary, NSNumber, NSString seems to work.
But the question is: is it considered safe to transfer data like that? How likely is this scenario going to fail? I imagine how a simple binary change makes everything crash; but given that there might be tons of Applications that store data in a similar fashion, this probably is just not going to happen.
So I would need to worry about changes on one platform that generates compatibilty problems on the other. Have there ever been issues with that?
It wouldn't be a big deal if I needed to package my data on my own, but this also opens room for bugs....
Eiko_______________________________________________
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