Archiving Object

blobbo
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Jun 2, 2005 — 11:33 AM
Hello all,

I have a doc-based cocoa app, and I want to simply archive an object, much like how a NIB archives them. I want a simple way - nothing complicated. Any advice on this?
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Jun 2, 2005 — 11:37 AM
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Andrew
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Jun 2, 2005 — 01:52 PM
also, if the object you're trying to archive is an NSArray or an NSDictionary, you can use writeToFile:atomically: to save the object as a .plist file. This is convenient because it's human readable.
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Steven
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Jun 2, 2005 — 06:37 PM
That even works with nested arrays, dictionaries, and basic objects (like NSNumber, NSString, etc)
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blobbo
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Jun 2, 2005 — 06:47 PM
It's a custom Class. To invoke NSArchiver on it seems to tell me that I need to denote some NSEncoder method in my custom class?!
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Steven
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Jun 2, 2005 — 06:51 PM
You have to implement the NSCoding protocol - check the docs on archiving.
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