These answers are helpful, but I require more from that. All I want to do is to check whether the class type of a property is equal to that of an existing object. All the codes above are not capable of doing so, because:
To get class name of an object, object_getClassName() returns texts like these:
__NSArrayI (for an NSArray instance)
__NSArrayM (for an NSMutableArray instance)
__NSCFBoolean (an NSNumber object initialized by initWithBool:)
__NSCFNumber (an NSValue object initialized by [NSNumber initWithBool:])
But if invoking getPropertyType(...) from above sample code, wit 4 objc_property_t structs of properties of a class defined like this:
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray* a0;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray* a1;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSNumber* n0;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSValue* n1;
it returns strings respectively as following:
NSArray
NSArray
NSNumber
NSValue
So it is not able to determine whether an NSObject is capable of being the value of one property of the class. How to do that then?
Here is my full sample code(function getPropertyType(...) is the same as above):
#import <objc/runtime.h>
@interface FOO : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray* a0;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray* a1;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSNumber* n0;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSValue* n1;
@end
@implementation FOO
@synthesize a0;
@synthesize a1;
@synthesize n0;
@synthesize n1;
@end
static const char *getPropertyType(objc_property_t property) {
const char *attributes = property_getAttributes(property);
//printf("attributes=%s\n", attributes);
char buffer[1 + strlen(attributes)];
strcpy(buffer, attributes);
char *state = buffer, *attribute;
while ((attribute = strsep(&state, ",")) != NULL) {
if (attribute[0] == 'T' && attribute[1] != '@') {
// it's a C primitive type:
// if you want a list of what will be returned for these primitives, search online for
// "objective-c" "Property Attribute Description Examples"
// apple docs list plenty of examples of what you get for int "i", long "l", unsigned "I", struct, etc.
NSString *name = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:attribute + 1 length:strlen(attribute) - 1 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
return (const char *)[name cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
}
else if (attribute[0] == 'T' && attribute[1] == '@' && strlen(attribute) == 2) {
// it's an ObjC id type:
return "id";
}
else if (attribute[0] == 'T' && attribute[1] == '@') {
// it's another ObjC object type:
NSString *name = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:attribute + 3 length:strlen(attribute) - 4 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
return (const char *)[name cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
}
}
return "";
}
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
NSArray* a0 = [[NSArray alloc] init];
NSMutableArray* a1 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
NSNumber* n0 = [[NSNumber alloc] initWithBool:YES];
NSValue* n1 = [[NSNumber alloc] initWithBool:NO];
const char* type0 = object_getClassName(a0);
const char* type1 = object_getClassName(a1);
const char* type2 = object_getClassName(n0);
const char* type3 = object_getClassName(n1);
objc_property_t property0 = class_getProperty(FOO.class, "a0");
objc_property_t property1 = class_getProperty(FOO.class, "a1");
objc_property_t property2 = class_getProperty(FOO.class, "n0");
objc_property_t property3 = class_getProperty(FOO.class, "n1");
const char * memberthype0 = getPropertyType(property0);//property_getAttributes(property0);
const char * memberthype1 = getPropertyType(property1);//property_getAttributes(property1);
const char * memberthype2 = getPropertyType(property2);//property_getAttributes(property0);
const char * memberthype3 = getPropertyType(property3);//property_getAttributes(property1);
NSLog(@"%s", type0);
NSLog(@"%s", type1);
NSLog(@"%s", type2);
NSLog(@"%s", type3);
NSLog(@"%s", memberthype0);
NSLog(@"%s", memberthype1);
NSLog(@"%s", memberthype2);
NSLog(@"%s", memberthype3);
return 0;
}
