[SOLVED] CFPropertyListWriteToStream and NSDictionary

FROM : Mike
DATE : Thu Apr 26 22:36:22 2007

I ended up doing that after having to do a lot of hacking on the
NSDictionary and now it works.

Thanks,

Mike

Marcel Weiher wrote:
>
> On 25,Apr 2007, at 21:18 , Mike wrote:
>

>> I am ready to write my NSMutableDictionary to a stream (file) using
>> CFPropertyListWriteToStream.

>
> Why?
>
> Why not just use
>
>      [loadedDockPlistDictMutable writeToFile:@"/Users/mike/test.plist"
> atomically:YES];
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcel
>
>
>

>> However, no matter what I do, the file is created but no data is
>> written to it.
>>
>> The docs say that an NSDictionary can be passed in the
>> CFPropertyListRef param of CFPropertyListWriteToStream, which is what
>> I am doing. However, I still can't get a valid .plist file.
>>
>> Do I need to do something to the NSDictionary data such as serializing
>> it before I write it out?
>>
>> Here is my code:
>>
>> streamFileURL = CFURLCreateFromFileSystemRepresentation(
>> kCFAllocatorDefault, (const UInt8*)"/Users/mike/test.plist", strlen(
>> (char*)"/Users/mike/test.plist" ), false );
>>
>> if( streamFileURL )
>> {
>>        stream = CFWriteStreamCreateWithFile( kCFAllocatorDefault,
>> streamFileURL );
>>        if( stream )
>>        {
>>            opened = CFWriteStreamOpen( stream );
>>            if( opened )
>>            {
>>                result = CFPropertyListWriteToStream(
>> (CFPropertyListRef)loadedDockPlistDictMutable,
>>                                                        stream,
>>                                                       
>> kCFPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0,
>>                                                        NULL);
>>                CFWriteStreamClose( stream );
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
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