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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:56:24+00:00

I’m trying to come up with a way to make it easy to switch

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I’m trying to come up with a way to make it easy to switch out our “mock” data services and our live ones. Basically, we’ll have live servers with real web services, but for whatever reason, a developer may want to load data from static files (file urls).

I figured I would solve this problem by creating categories that override the methods that fetch the data, thus leaving original code untouched (it has no concept of the “mock” data). I don’t want to litter my code with #ifdef.

I can put an #ifdef at the very beginning of each file that has categories in it, and I can set a custom flag in the configuration settings, but I’d rather just have a way to include or exclude the files depending on the configuration. Is that possible? How do you solve this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    See http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2009/Jun/msg00153.html

    The trick is to define EXCLUDED_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES in the configuration you want to exclude the files from, and set the value of that custom build setting to a list of the file names (or a pattern that matches those, and only those, file names).

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