Question

How can I can I call a function which name I stored as a value an an NSDictionary? Basically I need to typecast a String as a method name/call. Is this possible?

[thisCellContent objectForKey:@"callFunction"] //the object contains the function name to be called

//call this value as function, something similar to this ..
[self [thisCellContent objectForKey:@"callFunction"]]

Is something like this possible?

Answer 1

Not like this, but you can use the runtime/reflection:

NSString *s = [thisCellContent objectForKey:@"callFunction"];
SEL sel = NSSelectorFromString(s);
[self performSelector:sel withObject:nil];