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user393267
user393267

Reputation:

How to read and write data on a plist in Objective-C? (not iOS, regular Cocoa for OS X)

I am trying to learn how to read and write data from a plist file, using cocoa on OS X.

I've look around but I see a lot of examples for iOS; and I assume that even if the 2 cocoa frameworks are about the same, you do it in a different way on OS X, compared to iOS.

Is there any place where I can get a tutorial about how to read and write data from/to a plist in Cocoa?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1998

Answers (1)

Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 7720

You do it exactly the same way (minus getting the actual file, but as far as I understand that's not the question being asked).

If you want to read a plist file you use [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfURL:] or [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:] or the respective methods on NSDictionary

If you are writing to a plist you just use [NSArray/NSDictionary writeToFile:atomically:]

edited to add info from Catfish_Man's comment:

The above works for plists where the root object is either an array or a dictionary. For other root objects have a look at NSPropertyListSerialization

Upvotes: 5

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