phutti-pat / nsdictionary-extension

Extension for NSDictionary

NSDictionary-Extension

Extension for NSDictionary to do more with NSDictionary

No more nil value

objectForKey: withHolder: This Extension made to provide method to retrieve objectForKey: by passing Holder to method objectForKey: withHolder: in case that the key you want does not exits this method will return Holder instead of nil value Note

• The returned object will be forced to be the same class as Holder
• Holder must be object based variable

    NSDictionary *objects = @{@"x":@"xxx",@"y":@"yyy"};
    NSString *output1 = [objects objectForKey:@"z"];
    NSLog(@"Output 1: %@",output1); //Output 1: (null)
    NSString *output2 = [objects objectForKey:@"z" withHolder:@"zzz"];
    NSLog(@"Output 2: %@",output2); //Output 2: zzzz

Easy way to turn NSDictionary to JSON string

- (NSString *)toJSONString; Pretty Print JSON from NSDictionary

    NSDictionary *objects = @{@"x":@"xxx",@"y":@"yyy"};
    NSString *jsonString = [objects toJSONString];

Output

JSON: {
  "x" : "xxx",
  "y" : "yyy"
}