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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:54:04+00:00

I’m developing an iPhone app that is connected to a backend server. It needs

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I’m developing an iPhone app that is connected to a backend server. It needs to communicate with it many times, through several requests. I’m sending HTTP messages, but I want to receive more complex responses that I can parse somehow. Supposedly, I can provide any type of format for responses from the server, so my question is: which one would be easier(maybe even faster) to use/parse for Objective-C/Cocoa, and transform in a dictionary of some kind?

I know it’s a bit subjective but I still think it’s a valid question, some programming languages just have more support for some formats and less for others.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From Cocoa ‘s perspective, the simplest format is a property list as Cocoa can parse this natively into a dictionary or an array.

    You can use NSDictionary’s +dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: and +dictionaryWithContentsOfUrl: to read a plist file into a dictionary.

    If your plist data is not in a file, you can also convert an NSData object containing plist data to a dictionary with +[NSPropertyListSerialization dataFromPropertyList:format:errorDescription:] or convert an NSString to a dictionary with -[NSString propertyList].

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