The just added methods are rather overly complicated.. I think I can fix hasKey without testing in ProjectBuilder, but for the others I’m too chicken. If I screw it up anyway, well, there’s the history. :)

By the way, to whoever coded hasKey: I suspect you did it the way you did because you were worried about keys whose value is nil? Worry not, NSDictionaries can’t hold nil as a value.

Through the magic of toll-free bridging, it can, since CFDictionary can. Of course, you would be perfectly justified in assuming your NSDictionaries are normal and can’t hold nil. I don’t know how you could check for it without dropping down to CFDictionary calls anyway.

NSDictionary_CocoaDevUsersAdditions.h

//NSDictionary_CocoaDevUsersAdditions.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSDictionary (CocoaDevUsersAdditions)

-(NSDictionary *)dictionaryBySettingObject:(id)object forKey:(id)key; -(NSDictionary *)dictionaryBySettingObjects:(NSArray *)someObjects forKeys:(NSArray *)keys; -(NSDictionary *)dictionaryByAddingEntriesFromDictionary:(NSDictionary *)otherDictionary;

-(BOOL) boolForKey: (id) aKey; -(int) intForKey: (id) aKey; -(BOOL) hasKey: (id) aKey;

-(NSArray *)allObjectsSortedByKeySelector:(SEL)sortSelector;

// Requires NSArrayCategory

• (NSDictionary *)resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:(SEL)selector;
• (NSDictionary *)resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:(SEL)selector withObject:(id)object; @end

NSDictionary_CocoaDevUsersAdditions.m

//NSDictionary_CocoaDevUsersAdditions.m #import “NSDictionary_CocoaDevUsersAdditions.h”

@implementation NSDictionary (CocoaDevUsersAdditions)

-(NSDictionary *)dictionaryBySettingObject:(id)object forKey:(id)key { return [self dictionaryByAddingEntriesFromDictionary:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:object forKey:key]]; }

-(NSDictionary *)dictionaryBySettingObjects:(NSArray *)someObjects forKeys:(NSArray *)keys { return [self dictionaryByAddingEntriesFromDictionary:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:someObjects forKeys:keys]]; }

-(NSDictionary *)dictionaryByAddingEntriesFromDictionary:(NSDictionary *)otherDictionary { NSMutableDictionary * returnDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:self]; [returnDictionary addEntriesFromDictionary:otherDictionary]; return returnDictionary; }

-(BOOL) boolForKey: (id) aKey { BOOL result = NO; // lame default return value id obj = [self objectForKey:aKey]; if (obj) { SEL bv = @selector(boolValue); if ([obj respondsToSelector:bv]) result = ([obj performSelector:bv] ? YES : NO); else if ([obj isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) { result = ([(NSString *)obj caseInsensitiveCompare: @"YES"] == NSOrderedSame); if (!result) result = ([(NSString *)obj caseInsensitiveCompare: @"TRUE"] == NSOrderedSame); } } return result; }

-(int) intForKey: (id) aKey { int result = 0; // lame default return value id obj = [self objectForKey:aKey]; if (obj) { SEL iv = @selector(intValue); if ([obj respondsToSelector:iv]) result = (int)[obj performSelector:iv]; } return result; }

-(BOOL) hasKey: (id) testKey { return ([self objectForKey:testKey] != nil); }

-(NSArray *)allObjectsSortedByKeySelector:(SEL)sortSelector { NSArray *sortedKeys = self allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector:sortSelector]; NSArray *resultArray = [self objectsForKeys:sortedKeys notFoundMarker:[NSNull null; return resultArray; }

• (NSDictionary *)resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:(SEL)selector { NSArray *keys = [self allKeys]; NSArray *values = [self objectsForKeys:keys notFoundMarker:nil]; return [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:[values resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:selector] forKeys:keys]; }

• (NSDictionary *)resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:(SEL)selector withObject:(id)object { NSArray *keys = [self allKeys]; NSArray *values = [self objectsForKeys:keys notFoundMarker:nil]; return [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:[values resultsOfMakeObjectsPerformSelector:selector withObject:object] forKeys:keys]; }

@end

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