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devioustree
devioustree

Reputation: 231

How to call class methods in the iOS simulator with lldb?

I'm trying to debug an iOS app and I'm having problems with lldb in the simulator. Calling class methods doesn't seem to work. Instance methods work fine.

(lldb) po Category
<no result>
(lldb) po [Category class]
error: Couldn't prepare the expression for execution in the target
(lldb) po self
(TagsTableViewController *) $5 = 0x085585a0 <TagsTableViewController: 0x85585a0>

I've tried the 4.3 and 5.1 simulators but both exhibit the same issues.

Everything works fine when debugging on a device.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 3235

Answers (2)

digitalHound
digitalHound

Reputation: 4444

Adding this to expand on the accepted answer...

If you're trying to assign a new value to a variable in lldb like I was instead of just printing out the value then do something like this...

expr self.myArray = (NSArray*)[[(Class)objc_getClass("NSArray") class] arrayWithObjects:@"valueOne",@"valueTwo",@"etc",nil]

Upvotes: 0

bentford
bentford

Reputation: 33406

This works. Thanks to @devioustree who answered in a comment above.

Basic command is structured like this:

po [(Class)objc_getClass("ClassName") class]

To invoke someClassMethodHere:

po [[(Class)objc_getClass("ClassName") class] someClassMethodHere]

Upvotes: 18

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