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Re: Self describing NSObjects.
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Re: Self describing NSObjects.


  • Subject: Re: Self describing NSObjects.
  • From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:54:24 -0800

On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> How would you think about implementing this?  It seems like I run into this need year after year after year.


NSString * NSObjectDescriptionUsingProperties(id obj)
{
	unsigned int propCount;
	objc_property_t * propList = class_copyPropertyList([obj class], &propCount);
	NSMutableString * ms = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"<%@: %p>", NSStringFromClass([obj class]), obj];
	if (propCount > 0) {
		[ms appendString:@" {\n"];
		for (unsigned int i = 0; i < propCount; i++) {
			const char * propName = property_getName(propList[i]);
			[ms appendFormat:@"\t%s = %@,\n", propName, [obj valueForKey:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:propName]]];
		}
		[ms appendString:@"}"];
		free(propList);
	}

	return ms;
}




--
Seth Willits




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