rfm@gnu.org)Date: Generated at 2024-11-18 21:56:13 +0100
Copyright: (C) 2004-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Declared in:
- Foundation/NSPropertyList.h
The NSPropertyListSerialization class provides facilities for serialising and deserializing property list data in a number of formats. A property list is roughly an NSArray or NSDictionary object, with these or NSNumber , NSData , NSString , or NSDate objects as members. (See below.)
You do not work with instances of this class, instead you use a small number of class methods to serialize and deserialize property lists.
A property list may only
be one of the following classes -
( "one", "two", "three" )
In XML format, an array is an element whose name is
array and whose content is the array
content.
<array><string>one</string><string>two</string><string>three</string></array>
< 54637374 696D67 >
Base64 can be used since Base 1.24.9:
<[VGNzdGltZw==]>
In XML format, a data object is an element whose name is
data and whose content is a stream of
base64 encoded bytes.
<*D2002-03-22 11:30:00 +0100>
In XML format, a date object is an element whose name is
date and whose content is a date in the
format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ (or the above dfate
format).
<date>2002-03-22T11:30:00Z</date>
{
"key1" = "value1";
}
In XML format, a dictionary is an element whose name is
dict and whose content consists of pairs
of string key and other
property list objects.
<dict>
<key>key1</key>
<string>value1</string>
</dict>
<*BY> for
YES or <*BN> for
NO. <true /> or
<false />
<*INNN> where NNN
is an integer. <integer>NNN<integer>
<*RNNN> where NNN is a
real number. <real>NNN<real>
"hello world & others"
In XML format, the string is simply stored in UTF8 format
as the content of a string element, and the
only character escapes required are those used by XML
such as the '<' markup representing a '<'
character.
<string>hello world & others</string>"
nil is returned on success).
nil if
the data does not contain a property list
serialised in a supported format). nil or an error message
will be returned in anErrorString.