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. > > -- > __Pascal J. Bourguignon__ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/heardrwt%40gmail.com > > This email sent to heard...@gmail.com
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