Question

I got into a weird situation, I am trying different methods of NSObject just to know how it works. I am currently testing them on a simple view based application on iOS. I created a random object greater which returns objects in id as basic NSObject, Than I want to determine what object it is by getting their class name. Therefore I used below method…

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http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSObject_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSObject/className

Now when I call this method on my random object, Like…

[object className];

Xcode gives me an error saying this…

Instance method ‘-className’ not found

Is this method deprecated? Or Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

For whatever reason, the className method only exists on Mac OS X. On iOS you can use NSStringFromClass([object class]) instead.