Question

Is it possible to craft a message at runtime and send it to an object in objective-c on iOS?
Let’s say I have an instance of class
Foo
I want to be able to use something like

NSString * d = @"action1:";
[myFoo d]; 
d = @"action2:";
[myFoo d];

and Foo has at least two instant methods:

-(void) action1:(id)sender;
-(void) action2:(id)sender;

Answer 1

NSString *d = @"action1:";
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(d);
if ([myFoo respondsToSelector:selector])
{
    [myFoo performSelector:selector withObject:someObject];
}

There are a number of different performSelector methods on NSObject. You can call with no params, with delays, etc.