I want to create a CSSearchableItem with a attributeSet of ALL the attributes available.
To do so, I am trying to get all of the properties of the CSSearchableItemAttributeSet class in the following way:
NSMutableArray * allPropertyNames(Class c)
{
unsigned count;
objc_property_t *properties = class_copyPropertyList([CSSearchableItemAttributeSet class], &count);
NSMutableArray *rv = [NSMutableArray array];
unsigned i;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
objc_property_t property = properties[i];
NSString *name = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:property_getName(property)];
[rv addObject:name];
}
free(properties);
return rv;
}
The problem is I am getting the following result:
HTMLContentDataNoCopy,
textContentNoCopy,
accountType,
textSelected,
subtitle,
userTags,
albumPersistentID,
adamID,
extendedContentRating,
fileIdentifier,
parentFileIdentifier,
filename,
documentIdentifier,
dataOwnerType,
existingThread,
partiallyDownloaded,
queryResultMatchedFields,
uniqueIdentifier,
bundleID,
protectionClass,
expirationDate,
userActivityType,
queryResultRelevance,
applicationName,
contentSnippet,
relatedAppBundleIdentifier,
mailAttachmentNames,
mailAttachmentTypes,
mailAttachmentKinds,
mailDateReceived,
mailDateLastViewed,
mailFlagged,
mailFlagColor,
mailRead,
mailRepliedTo,
mailPriority,
mailGMailLabels,
mailMessageID,
mailCategory,
mailConversationID,
readerView,
textContentDataSource,
fileProviderID,
fileItemID,
parentFileItemID,
ownerName,
ownerIdentifier,
lastEditorName,
lastEditorIdentifier,
fileProviderDomaindentifier,
fileProviderUserInfoKeys,
fileProviderUserInfoValues,
trashed,
shared,
uploaded,
uploading,
uploadError,
downloading,
downloadError,
extraData,
favoriteRank,
subItemCount,
sharedItemCurrentUserRole,
versionIdentifier,
downloadingStatus,
lastApplicationLaunchedDate,
isPlaceholder,
mutableAttributes,
customAttributes,
attributes,
searchableItemFlags,
decoder,
contentDecoder,
codedAttributes,
codedCustomAttributes,
contentObj,
hasCodedCustomAttributes
None of those are the properties I was looking for.
Does anyone know how to get this?
That does appear to be the list of properties declared on the CSSearchableItemAttributeSet class. What is unexpected?
While Objective-C has introspection features, said features are not designed to be used at runtime to deduce or subdivide capabilities of classes in this fashion.
I.e. introspection driven programming is largely discouraged save for some very specific examples like delegation.
In this case, you'll likely find success in either adopting CoreData's formal modeling capabilities (or a similar solution) or creating a class method that contains a list of properties that you want to advertise.
Overall, though, your code is likely to be less bug prone if you generally use relatively static call sites (i.e. [someObj myProperty]) as opposed to trying to abstract away.
while adding a integer to object at index of an array, I am getting an error of "arithmetic on pointer to interface id which is not a constant size for this architecture and platform", didn't know how to resolve it.
Please help.
my code is -
if (arrayTotalAmount.count>0) {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i<=arrayTotalAmount.count; i++) {
sum = (sum+[arrayTotalAmount objectAtIndex:i]);
}
In 4th line I am getting that error.
Thanks
Objective C array only accepts NSObject type. That means it is impossible to insert a primitive value into an NSArray. You are getting an error because objectAtIndex method returns a pointer which points to that NSObject, the arithmetic operations are still valid on pointers but the thing is that the size of a pointer as integer (32bit, 64bit) may differ on device. So one of the solution is typecasting the pointer sum+(int)[arrayTotalAmount objectAtIndex:i] which makes no sense in your case.
The solution you are looking for is probably sum+[[arrayTotalAmount objectAtIndex:i] intValue] or similar. Assuming that array contains NSNumber objects. If the object inside an array is not an NSNumber then your app will fail in runtime showing an error indicating that an object X does not have a method called intValue in which case you will need to figure how to convert object X to your int.
You just need to convert your array object to integer and then add it will work for you.
if (arrayTotalAmount.count>0) {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i<=arrayTotalAmount.count; i++) {
sum = (sum+[[arrayTotalAmount objectAtIndex:i] intValue]);
}
I have a generic person object with properties personName, lastName, and age. I am storing the user input into an NSMutableArray and I wanted to find a under by his/her name in the array. I have tried finding a bunch of different solutions but none that quite really work.
This is my main.m
#autoreleasepool {
char answer;
char locatePerson[40];
//Create mutable array to add users for retrieval later
NSMutableArray *people = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
do{
Person *newPerson = [[Person alloc]init];
[newPerson enterInfo];
[newPerson printInfo];
[people addObject:newPerson];
NSLog(#"Would you like to enter another name?");
scanf("\n%c", &answer);
}while (answer == 'y');
NSLog(#"Are you looking for a specific person?");
scanf("%c", locatePerson);
//This is where I need help
int idx = [people indexOfObject:]
}
This is very basic but I am new to objective-c and I wanted to try and find the user by name. The solutions I've seen have used the indexesOfObjectsPassingTest method. But I was wondering if I can't just use the indexOfObjectmethod the way I did there to locate a person by its name?
Any help is appreciated.
This is one of those hard problems you should avoid with some up-front design. If you know that you are putting things into a collection class and will need to get them out again based on some attribute (rather than by order of insertion) a dictionary is the most efficient collection class.
You can use a NSDictionary keyed with Person's name attribute. You can still iterate over all the objects but you will avoid having to search the whole collection. It can take a surprisingly long time to find a matching attribute in a NSArray! You wouldn't even have to change your Person object, just do
NSDictionary *peopleDictionary = #{ person1.name : person1, person2.name : person2 };
or add them one by one as they are created into a NSMutableArray.
You can try something like this assuming that 'name' is a property for your Person class.
NSUInteger i = 0;
for(Person *person in people) {
if([person.name isEqualToString:locatePerson]) {
break;
}
i++;
}
I found this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5163334/1364174
Which presents how for in loop is implemented.
NSFastEnumerationState __enumState = {0};
id __objects[MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE];
NSUInteger __count;
while ((__count = [myArray countByEnumeratingWithState:&__enumState objects:__objects count:MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE]) > 0) {
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < __count; i++) {
id obj = __objects[i];
[obj doSomething];
}
}
The problem is that, I found it wrong.
First of all, when you have Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) turned on, you got an error
Sending '__strong id *' to parameter of type '__unsafe_unretained_id*' changes retain/release properties of pointer
But even when I turn ARC off I found out that I __object array seems to behave strangely :
This is actual Code (I assumed MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE to be 40):
#autoreleasepool {
NSArray *myArray = #[#"a", #"b", #"c", #"d", #"e", #"f", #"g"];
int MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE = 40;
NSFastEnumerationState __enumState = {0};
id __objects[MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE];
NSUInteger __count;
while ((__count = [myArray countByEnumeratingWithState:&__enumState objects:__objects count:MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE]) > 0) {
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < __count; i++) {
id obj = __objects[i];
__enumState.itemsPtr
NSLog(#" Object from __objects ! %#", obj); // on screenshot different message
}
}
}
return 0;
I got EXC_BAD_ACESS when I try to get the contents of the __object array.
I also found out that when you try to iterate through __enumState.itemsPtr it actually works.
Could you explain me what is going on here ? Why my __objects seems to be "shrunken down". And why it doesn't contains desired object? And why is that error when ARC is turned on.
Thank you very very much in advance for your time and effort! (I provided screenshot for better understanding what causes an error)
First of all, strong pointers cannot be used in C-structures, as explained in the "Transitioning to ARC Release Notes", therefore the objects array has be be declared
as
__unsafe_unretained id __objects[MAX_STACKBUFF_SIZE];
if you compile with ARC.
Now it is not obvious (to me) from the NSFastEnumeration documentation, but it is
explained in Cocoa With Love:Implementing countByEnumeratingWithState:objects:count:
that the implementation need not fill the supplied objects array, but can just set
__enumState.itemsPtr to an existing array (e.g. some internal storage). In that case, the contents of the
__objects array is undefined, which causes the crash.
Replacing
id obj = __objects[i];
by
id obj = __enumState.itemsPtr[i];
gives the expected result, which is what you observed.
Another reference can be found in the "FastEnumerationSample" sample code:
You have two choices when implementing this method:
1) Use the stack
based array provided by stackbuf. If you do this, then you must
respect the value of 'len'.
2) Return your own array of objects. If
you do this, return the full length of the array returned until you
run out of objects, then return 0. For example, a linked-array
implementation may return each array in order until you iterate
through all arrays.
In either case, state->itemsPtr MUST be a valid
array (non-nil). ...
I have a dictionary that contains a Class string name as the key and an array of corresponding class objects as the value.
It could be a number of different Class types that come in, so I wanted to do dynamic assignment at runtime.
Does anyone know why this code gives a compiler error?
// Where obj is an object of type MyClass
Class myClass = NSClassFromString(#"MyClass");
myClass *objectOfTypeMyClass = obj;
Update:
Here's how i ended up implementing it:
Class interestClass = NSClassFromString(classProvidedAsString);
id interest = [interestClass createNewInterestUsingManagedObjectContext:backgroundContext];
[interest setValue:title forKey:#"title"];
[interest addLikedByObject:aFriend];
Where title is a property on all objects that I can accept, and createNewInterest is a method all objects have.
The problem was trying to cast id as interestClass to use the properties and methods of that class.
Why just don't you use id?
id objectOfTypeMyClass = obj;
Another option would be use polymorphism (if the classes were created by you).
You can do this way:
NSObject *object=[NSObject new];//this can hold any kind of object
object=#"my name is lakhan";//as string
NSLog(#"%#",object);
object=#[#(10),#(50)]; //now working as array
NSLog(#"%#",object);
object=#{#"k1": #"10", #"k2":#"20"}; // as dictionary
NSLog(#"%#",object);
So as per your requirement you can use whatever value you need to set on the object.