I'm building an application that utilises NSCoding to save NSObject's to a documentPath. I'm having no issues doing this, I'm just curious about something.
I have MACompany, which implements NSCoding delegate methods.
- (void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)encoder {
[encoder encodeObject:address_1 forKey:kAddress_1];
[encoder encodeObject:address_2 forKey:kAddress_2];
[encoder encodeObject:city_town forKey:kCity_Town];
[encoder encodeObject:company_name forKey:kCompany_Name];
[encoder encodeObject:country forKey:kCountry];
[encoder encodeObject:date_added forKey:kDate_Added];
[encoder encodeObject:fax forKey:kFax];
[encoder encodeObject:parent_company_website forKey:kWebsite];
[encoder encodeObject:postal_code forKey:kPostal_Code];
[encoder encodeObject:state_province forKey:kState_Province];
[encoder encodeObject:type forKey:kType];
[encoder encodeObject:stores forKey:kStores]; //NSArray of custom NSObjects
}
As you can see, I have a NSArray of custom NSObjects (MAStore). Each one of these objects also implements the same NSCoding what not.
However, my question is, when I call encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)encoder method in MAStore, and it gets to the [encoder encodeObject:stores forKey:kStores], will all the objects stored within the stores NSArray have the encoderWithCoder:(NSCoder *)encoder method called if implemented?
EDIT
The reason I'm asking this is that I want to know whether or not it'll work before I invest time in doing such a thing. I have multiple custom NSObjects with NSArrays that hold more custom NSObjects. It would be a long process to find that it doesn't work.