Question

Are there any standard objects or functions to parse an NSURL’s components? Clearly I could write one, but why re-invent the wheel?

[NSURL path] will return an NSString like "argX=x&argY=y&argZ=z"
What I would rather get back is a dictionary populated with {@"argX" => @"x", @"argY" => @"y", @"argZ" = @"z"}

For the path, which returns a string like “/partA/partB/partC”, I would rather get an array with the structure {[0] => @"partA", [1] => @"partB", [2] => @"partC"}

I realize this is a pretty specific ask, but it seems like something a lot of people would want.

This is for iOS! Apparently NSURL has different functions on macOS.

Answer 1

You might want to look at pathComponents which returns an array of the components of the URL. Get more information here.