On Feb 4, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote:
> Jeez, really? I need a broken debugger like a hole in the dead at the moment. > Any idea what causes it and how to get rid of it? Using “po” won’t help as > it’s a custom object, I need to look at the properties. Any ideas how I can > do this? OK. This is exactly what the autoDescribe category is meant for. Sending it your way off line In the debugger simply type this at a breakpoint: po [myAwesomeObject autoDescribe] And you’ll get something like this. (lldb) po [indexPath autoDescribe] 2016-02-04 19:50:29.819 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] length 2016-02-04 19:50:29.819 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] row 2016-02-04 19:50:29.820 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] section 2016-02-04 19:50:29.820 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] item 2016-02-04 19:50:29.820 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] ab_item 2016-02-04 19:50:29.822 SWNDirect[76380:29705304] -[NSObject(AutoDescribe) autoDescriptionForClassType:] [Line 90] ab_group [NSIndexPath {length: Q = 2; row: q = 0; section: q = 2; item: q = 0; ab_item: q = 0; ab_group: q = 2; }] Instead of something like this: (lldb) po indexPath <NSIndexPath: 0xc000000000000216> {length = 2, path = 2 - 0} You can even use it in your log statements: GeofenceControllerSingleton.m:1337: DLog(@" %@", [[_geofenceObjects objectForKey:myKey] autoDescribe]); All in all, I find it a major lack of consideration on Apple’s end to not have something like this (and better written) in the Cocoa libs. Apple and Objective-C tout object introspection, but Apple doesn’t hand you tools that let you spit out your object’s guts. We shouldn’t have to write this stuff. Really. It’s like selling a mechanic a car with no gauges. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com