Question

Hopefully that title is clear enough. Anyways, it seems:

[NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:rootObject toFile:path]; 

is restricted to NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0.

I need the format to be human readable [so xml]. If you’re interested, this is part of project I’ll eventually put up on github with a blog post about ‘How to Unit Test GPS Applications’

🙂

Answer 1

You have to use NSPropertyListSerialization to convert it. Basically, assuming the object that you’re serializing is called myObject and the ultimate file is stored in myPath, you would serialize it to XML using something like the following code fragment:

NSString *error = nil; NSData *mySerializedObject = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:myObject]; NSData *xmlData = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataFromPropertyList:mySerializedObject                         format:NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0                         errorDescription:&error]: if( xmlData ) {     [xmlData writeToFile:myPath atomically:YES]; } else {     NSLog(error);     [error release]; }