Question

I would like to know how to create an object of the specified Class in objective c. Is there some method I am missing in the runtime docs? If so what is it? I would like to be able to do something like the following:

NSDictionary *types;

-(id<AProtocol>) createInstance:(NSString *) name
{
    if ((Class cls = [types objectForKey:name]) != nil)
    {
       return new Instance of cls;
    }
    else
    {
        [NSException raise:@"class not found" format:@"The specified class (%@) was not found.", name];
    }
}

please note that name is not a name of the class, but an abbreviation for it, and I cannot do what is indicated in Create object from NSString of class name in Objective-C.

Answer 1

A simple [[cls alloc] init] will do the trick.