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Re: Good idea/bad idea?
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Re: Good idea/bad idea?


  • Subject: Re: Good idea/bad idea?
  • From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:03:03 -0700

That's the flip side of what I was thinking about, but also useful. I was thinking about the code that receives the dictionary:

- (void)processDictionary:(NSDictionary *)d
{
  foo = [[d valueForKey:@"foo"] orIfNull:fooDefault];
 ...


On Apr 24, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Andy Lee wrote:

> On Apr 24, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden> wrote:
>> An orIfNull: for NSObject and NSNull might be nice for those times when you put placeholders in dictionaries.
>
> For that you really only need a method in one place.  I'd be inclined to put it in NSNull:
>
> + (id)nullIfNil:(id)obj
> {
>    return obj ?: [self null];
> }
>
> And then in constructing your dictionary you'd have code like
>
> NSDictionary *myLookup = @{ key1, [NSNull nullIfNil:value1],
>                            key2, [NSNull nullIfNil:value2],
>                            ... };
>
> For brevity I might not use a method at all; since this is a special case where there is only one variable, a function or macro is much less clunky:
>
> NSDictionary *myLookup = @{ key1, ObjOrNull(value1),
>                            key2, ObjOrNull(value2),
>                            ... };
>
> --Andy


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