Question

I am using plists to save/load an NSMutableArray,

the code:

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *prsPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"records.plist"];

prs = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:prsPath];

when I am using the last sentence of code somewhere else in my code it says: “prsPath” undeclared. (I am loading my code in ViewDidLoad) When I add an Object it doesn’t save it, it doesn’t even show up. (Loading the last sentence on add)

Answer 1

I’m using this method and it’s work 100%

- (void) writeToPlist: (NSString*)fileName withData:(NSMutableArray *)data
{
     NSString *documentsDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
     NSString *finalPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName];

     [data writeToFile:finalPath atomically: YES];
     /* This would change the firmware version in the plist to 1.1.1 by initing the NSDictionary with the plist, then changing the value of the string in the key "ProductVersion" to what you specified */
}

and this method for reading from plist file:

- (NSMutableArray *) readFromPlist: (NSString *)fileName {
     NSString *documentsDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
     NSString *finalPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName];

     BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:finalPath];

     if (fileExists) {
          NSMutableArray *arr = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:finalPath];
          return arr;
     } else {
          return nil;
     }
}

Hope it can help you.