Or you can call _ivarDescription on the object in question.
-R

> On 4 Feb 2015, at 10:54:49 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 04 Feb 2015, at 19:43, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> All too often, I have a simple data class that is just a bunch of properties 
>> of cocoa collections.
>> 
>> When walking through the debugger, it would be nice if these classes could 
>> auto describe.
>> 
>> Consider this.  I have a class with the properties of NSStrings that are 
>> firstname, lastname, address.
>> 
>> Calling description or debugDescription on an instance of the class simply 
>> prints out the memory location.
>> 
>> Is there something that I'm missing here?  I don't want to manually enter 
>> each of the names of each of the properties to be exposed through a 
>> description method.  Is there a means to extend NSObject to auto describe 
>> the top level of properties that are NSStrings, NSDictionaries, NSSets and 
>> so on and automatically dump them to the console?  
>> 
>> How would you think about implementing this?  It seems like I run into this 
>> need year after year after year.
> 
> Have a look at: 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSObject_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000050-SW25
> 
> You can obtain the attributeKeys, and from there, obtain the value of the 
> attributes and therefore implement a -description and/or -debugDescription 
> including them.
> 
> -- 
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> 
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