Issue with fast enumeration of dictionary
Issue with fast enumeration of dictionary
- Subject: Issue with fast enumeration of dictionary
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:28:30 -0400
- Thread-topic: Issue with fast enumeration of dictionary
In my NSDictionary object , the keys are NSValue objects encoding a pointer
of type void*, using +[NSValue valueWithPointer:].
In the examples below, observersDictionary is the dictionary I am
enumerating. It is an NSDictionary object of global scope.
When I enumerate the dictionary the old Objective-C 1.0 way, it works:
+ (NSArray *)observersForPid:(pid_t)pid {
NSMutableArray *outArray = [NSMutableArray array];
NSEnumerator *enumerator = [observersDictionary objectEnumerator];
NSDictionary *dictionary;
while ((dictionary = [enumerator nextObject])) {
if ([[dictionary objectForKey:@"pidNumberKey"] intValue] == pid) {
[outArray addObject:[dictionary objectForKey:@"observerKey"]];
}
}
return [[outArray copy] autorelease];
}
But when I enumerate it using fast enumeration in Objecive-C 2.0, it does
not work:
+ (NSArray *)observersForPid:(pid_t)pid {
NSMutableArray *outArray = [NSMutableArray array];
for (NSDictionary *dictionary in observersDictionary) {
if ([[dictionary objectForKey:@"pidNumberKey"] intValue] == pid) {
[outArray addObject:[dictionary objectForKey:@"observerKey"]];
}
}
return [[outArray copy] autorelease]; // immutable
}
If I understand the error message correctly, it tells me that dictionary
does not respond to the -objectForKey: selectors in the if clause.
Then, when I tweak the fast enumeration version to use an enumerator, it
works again:
+ (NSArray *)observersForPid:(pid_t)pid {
NSMutableArray *outArray = [NSMutableArray array];
NSEnumerator *enumerator = [observersDictionary objectEnumerator];
for (NSDictionary *dictionary in enumerator) {
if ([[dictionary objectForKey:@"pidNumberKey"] intValue] == pid) {
[outArray addObject:[dictionary objectForKey:@"observerKey"]];
}
}
return [[outArray copy] autorelease]; // immutable
}
I suspect this has to do with the fact that the dictionary's keys encode
void* pointers. But the keys are NSValue objects, and they are therefore
valid dictionary keys because they are of type id as specified by the
NSDictionary API. The Objective-C 2.0 language documentation states that
dictionaries implement fast enumeration by enumerating on the keys.
What is going on? Should it be documented that you can't use fast
enumeration on a dictionary whose keys are NSValue objects created using
+valueWithPointer:? Or is this a bug in Objective-C 2.0 or in the
implementation of fast enumeration for dictionaries? Or am I doing something
wrong?
I'm using GCC 4.2. I haven't tried this with GCC 4.0.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com
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