Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: I'm preprocessing my info.plist file so I can automatically update it with version number, etc. I want to include a URL in my plist (to support Sparkle) but Xcode won't let me. If I include the URL directly, it causes an error (xml parse error). If I define a substitution for it in my plist preprocessing settings, I get no error, but only 'http:' is copied, and the rest of the URL is stripped. How do I do this? thanks, Graham Here's how I do it... My build settings have Expand build settings in info.plist file and Preprocess info.plist file turned on. Then in my Info.plist file I have keySUFeedURL/key stringhttp:#47;/www.kerlmax.com/foo/string Note that you have to escape one of the slashes in http:// for the parsing to work. Isaac Kerlmax LLC http://www.kerlmax.com ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
Anyway, that's useful info, at least it explains what I'm seeing. I
worked around it in a different way in the end - I added a user-
defined setting for my URL then just used ${MY_URL} in the plist.
That worked fine - this is similar to Phillipe's suggestion.
I know you found a way to do this that works for you, but I just
wanted to point out that you can also just put it into the
InfoPlist.strings file(s) and it'll work just fine (and, in the case
of Sparkle, allows you to have different URLs for different
localizations if you want to do that).
Just so I'm clear here, I mean putting the key into the
InfoPlist.strings file(s) rather than into the Info.plist file. This
will work for almost any key you want to use, as long as you (or the
underlying API) is using -objectForInfoDictionaryKey to look up the
keys.
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(aka Michael Nickerson)
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Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On 28 Dec 2008, at 11:35 pm, Michael Nickerson wrote: I know you found a way to do this that works for you, but I just wanted to point out that you can also just put it into the InfoPlist.strings file(s) and it'll work just fine (and, in the case of Sparkle, allows you to have different URLs for different localizations if you want to do that). Just so I'm clear here, I mean putting the key into the InfoPlist.strings file(s) rather than into the Info.plist file. This will work for almost any key you want to use, as long as you (or the underlying API) is using -objectForInfoDictionaryKey to look up the keys. Actually I did try that, and it didn't work for me. It certainly sounds like a good idea. Since the API in question is within Sparkle I don't know what it's using. I'll ask the question... cheers, Graham ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
I'm preprocessing my info.plist file so I can automatically update it with version number, etc. I want to include a URL in my plist (to support Sparkle) but Xcode won't let me. If I include the URL directly, it causes an error (xml parse error). If I define a substitution for it in my plist preprocessing settings, I get no error, but only 'http:' is copied, and the rest of the URL is stripped. How do I do this? thanks, Graham ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On 27 Dec 08, at 04:22, Graham Cox wrote: I'm preprocessing my info.plist file so I can automatically update it with version number, etc. I want to include a URL in my plist (to support Sparkle) but Xcode won't let me. If I include the URL directly, it causes an error (xml parse error). If I define a substitution for it in my plist preprocessing settings, I get no error, but only 'http:' is copied, and the rest of the URL is stripped. Does your URL have an ampersand () in it? If so, try escaping it as amp;. ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On 27 Dec 2008, at 11:27 pm, Andrew Farmer wrote: Does your URL have an ampersand () in it? If so, try escaping it as amp;. No it doesn't - it's just a very straightforward URL like http://mysite.com/path/to/stuff.xml (I also tried quoting the string which makes no difference) --Graham ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Graham Cox wrote: I'm preprocessing my info.plist file so I can automatically update it with version number, etc. I want to include a URL in my plist (to support Sparkle) but Xcode won't let me. If I include the URL directly, it causes an error (xml parse error). I don't know why that would be. Can you show us some of the Info.plist containing the URL? If I define a substitution for it in my plist preprocessing settings, I get no error, but only 'http:' is copied, and the rest of the URL is stripped. I suspect you're being affected by the fact that // is a comment delimiter in .xcconfig files. In a similar situation, I had to define a build setting SLASH to be a single slash, and then say $SLASH$SLASH in the URL. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
RE: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
Sparkle supports quoted urls in the plist file (I wrote the patch exactly for the problem you are experiencing). In my case, I #define MyURL HTTP://www.myurl.com/myupdate.xml in my pre-processing source file, then use MyURL in the plist file. Works like a charm! Phil From: cocoa-dev-bounces+philippe.casgrain=corel@lists.apple.com [cocoa-dev-bounces+philippe.casgrain=corel@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Graham Cox [graham@bigpond.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 7:30 AM To: Andrew Farmer Cc: Cocoa-Dev List Subject: Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist? On 27 Dec 2008, at 11:27 pm, Andrew Farmer wrote: Does your URL have an ampersand () in it? If so, try escaping it as amp;. No it doesn't - it's just a very straightforward URL like http://mysite.com/path/to/stuff.xml (I also tried quoting the string which makes no difference) --Graham ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/philippe.casgrain%40corel.com This email sent to philippe.casgr...@corel.com ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
Graham Cox wrote: On 27 Dec 2008, at 11:27 pm, Andrew Farmer wrote: Does your URL have an ampersand () in it? If so, try escaping it as amp;. No it doesn't - it's just a very straightforward URL like http:// mysite.com/path/to/stuff.xml (I also tried quoting the string which makes no difference) In a fit of optimism, entered the terms Info.plist and preprocess in Google and found this: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2175.html To work around this feature of the C preprocessor, we can pass the - traditional flag to the Info.plist Other Preprocessor Flags build setting in Xcode. This will cause the preprocessor to use the traditional ANSI C /* and */ character strings as tokens to recognize and discard text as comments. ___ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: How do I include a URL in a preprocessed Info.plist?
On 28 Dec 2008, at 6:41 am, Gregory Weston wrote:
In a fit of optimism, entered the terms Info.plist and preprocess in
Google and found this:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2175.html
To work around this feature of the C preprocessor, we can pass the -
traditional flag to the Info.plist Other Preprocessor Flags build
setting in Xcode. This will cause the preprocessor to use the
traditional ANSI C /* and */ character strings as tokens to
recognize and discard text as comments.
Ah ;-) The lesson here may be to use Google and not waste time on
Apple's internal search...
Anyway, that's useful info, at least it explains what I'm seeing. I
worked around it in a different way in the end - I added a user-
defined setting for my URL then just used ${MY_URL} in the plist. That
worked fine - this is similar to Phillipe's suggestion.
Thanks to all who helped,
cheers, Graham
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