Latest	0.1.0
Homepage	https://github.com/confidenceJuice/NSObjectIntrospection
License	MIT
Frameworks	Foundation
Authors	Daniel Haight

NSObjectIntrospection

A category on NSObject to allow for runtime introspection.
It allows you to generate a dictionary with key value pairs of an objects properties.

Prerequisites

These exensions use ARC; Hence ios4.0+

How to install

Drag NSObject+introspection folder into your project.
#import "NSObject+introspection.h" wherever needed.

Usage

Since NSObject is the root class of almost any Objective-C object, it can be called by almost any class you have.

It exposes 4 methods:

-(NSDictionary*)dhc_propertiesDict; //returns a dictionary with key-value pairs of the objects declared properties

-(NSDictionary *)dhc_iVarsDict; //returns a dictionary with key-value pairs of the objects iVars

-(NSDictionary *)dhc_methodsDict; //returns a dictionary with key-value pairs of the objects methods
//currently the  key and value are both the method name string

-(NSDictionary *)dhc_objectIntrospectDictionary; //returns a dictionary with the above 3 dictionaries with keys "properties", "iVars" and "methods"

Usage notes

any property or iVar that is nil will be an [NSNull null] value for it’s corresponding key.
any scalar properties will automatically be converted to / from their objective equivalents.

Example

SomeObject.h

//SomeObject.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "SomeOtherObject.h" // not described in readme

@interface SomeObject : NSObject {
  NSString *anIvarString;
}

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *someString;
@property (nonatomic, strong) SomeOtherObject *someOtherObject;

SomeObject.m

//SomeObject.m
#import "SomeObject.h"

@implementation SomeObject

@synthesize someString;
@synthesize someOtherObject;

-(id)init{
  self=[super init];

  if(self){
    [email protected]"some string value";
    [email protected]"a string which is a property of our object"
    self.someOtherObject=[[SomeOtherObject alloc] init];
    }

  return self;
}

anywhere in your code

#import "NSObject+Introspection.h"
#import "SomeObject.h"
...
SomeObject *someObject=[[SomeObject alloc] init];

NSDictionary *propsDict=[someObject propertiesDict];

NSLog (@"%@",propsDict.description);

log output

{
    someOtherObject =  "<someOtherObject: 0x765fe50>"; //the dictionary contains the pointer to the actual instance
    someString = "a string which is a property of our object";
}

todo

talk about removal of .cxx_desctruct method from methods dict, its a method on every nsobject called after dealloc
add some more interesting extensions :)

Latest podspec

{
    "name": "DHCObjectIntrospection",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "summary": "a category on NSObject to allow for runtime introspection.",
    "homepage": "https://github.com/confidenceJuice/NSObjectIntrospection",
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": {
        "Daniel Haight": "[email protected]"
    },
    "source": {
        "git": "https://github.com/confidenceJuice/NSObjectIntrospection.git",
        "tag": "0.1.0"
    },
    "source_files": "NSObject+Introspect/*.{h,m}",
    "frameworks": "Foundation",
    "requires_arc": true
}

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:12:03 +0000

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