On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:24:54 -0700, Jerry Krinock said:

>With each major update of Mac OS X, Apple updates more classes to return
>proper NSErrors, deprecating methods which either don't give errors or
>give outmoded error representations.
>
>But what about NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver, in particular
>these methods…
>
>+[NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:]
>+[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:]
>
>-unarchiveObjectWithFile: takes a file, for heaven's sake.  If someone
>has messed with the file, eek, it raises an exception.  I generally
>enclose these methods in @try{} to avoid that.  Very primitive!
>
>Does anyone know why these methods not marked for deprecation?  Is there
>a reason why we don't we have 21st-century archive/unarchive methods
>that return errors instead of raise exceptions?

They also haven't been updated to take URLs instead of paths. :(

Of all the replies, no one seemed to mention that you can use 
unarchiveObjectWithData: instead.  Use a modern API (with NSError) to read your 
file, then if successful, pass the NSData on.  That helps a little, at least 
for file system errors.

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
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