Given an object, possible to get its class name and convert it to a string?

Question

Suppose I have the object *x of class Illustration. Using x, I'd like to extract its class name into a string so I have @"Illustration". Is it possible to do this?

Answer 1

Use NSStringFromClass.

NSString* className = NSStringFromClass([x class]);

NSString* className = [[x class] description];

Answer 2

You can use NSStringFromClass([x class])