Question

I’m trying to create a function in Objective-C that will take __FILE__ and _cmd as arguments to prepare them for a Flurry logging event.

Here’s my function signature:


NSDictionary *prepareFailedRequestData(ASIFormDataRequest *request, char file, SEL method);


I’m not sure what to type the ‘file’ argument as. I tried ‘unsigned char’ based on some documentation I found, but that, as well as my current implementation, are throwing compiler warnings and crashing the program.

If ‘file’ will be the output of the __FILE__ macro, how do I type my argument?

Thanks!

Answer 1

//You would need to do something like this
const char *currentFile=__FILE__;

Is a constant string, from the Apple documentation:

This macro expands to the name of the current input file, in the form
of a C string constant. This is the path by which the preprocessor
opened the file, not the short name specified in `#include’ or as the
input file name argument. For example, “/usr/local/include/myheader.h”
is a possible expansion of this macro.