Questions tagged [nsarchiving]

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Archiving objects within objects in objective-c

Thankyou for reading, PS: I am a beginner so I am not too good at this unfortunetaly, but any help would be very appreciated So basically I want to archive a big array which contains Account objects, which they themselves contain: 1.a username in…
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Saving data for use at runtime

I've got an iOS app I am trying to build that presents the user data from a .xlsx (MS Excel file) I have. The file has nearly 11,000 rows, with 20 columns per row. I have built a parser to transform each row into an subclass of NSObject, with each…
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After unarchiving my array, it suddenly contains NSRects instead of NSValues. How to retrieve the,

I wrapped NSRects in NSValues to get them into an NSMutableArray. I now want to add saving/loading capabilities to my app, so I thought I'd use NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver. Wrong! NSKeyedArchiver cannot archive structs. After a bit of…
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Comparing objects after archiving

I have an NSMutableArray of custom objects which are archived via NSArchiver. I need to be able to retrieve the archive as a backup and merge it with the existing NSMutableArray in app. I need to remove duplicates between the in-app NSMutableArray…
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How to get file path? Loading documents in Document based app

I want to be able to save and load documents, so I'm trying to use these methods: [NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject: rootObject toFile: @"myMap.map"]; rootObject = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:@"myMap.map"]; What am I meant to put…
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Building a custom NSArchiver serialize to string

How does NSArchiver serialize to file? I assume it's serialized in binary format, is that correct? What if I want to store it in string so I can store into SQLite database? Do I need to write my own custom NSArchiver? If so, how do I go about doing…
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