Trying to write to binary plist format from Python (w/PyObjC) to be fetch and read in by Cocoa Touch
I'm trying to serve a property list of search results to my iPhone app. The server is a prototype, written in Python.
First I found Python's built-in plistlib, which is awesome. I want to give search-as-you-type a shot, so I need it to be as small as possible, and xml was too big. The binary plist format seems like a good choice. Unfortunately plistlib doesn't do binary files, so step right up PyObjC.
(Segue: I'm very open to any other thoughts on how to accomplish live search. I already pared down the data as much as possible, including only displaying enough results to fill the window with the iPhone keyboard up, which is 5.)
Unfortunately, although I know Python and am getting pretty decent with Cocoa, I still don't get PyObjC.
This is the Cocoa equivalent of what I want to do:
NSArray *plist = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:read_path];
NSError *err;
NSData *data = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList:pl开发者_Python百科ist
format:NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0
options:0 // docs say this must be 0, go figure
error:&err];
[data writeToFile:write_path atomically:YES];
I thought I should be able to do something like this, but dataWithPropertyList isn't in the NSPropertyListSerialization objects dir() listing. I should also probably convert the list to NSArray. I tried the PyObjC docs, but it's so tangential to my real work that I thought I'd try an SO SOS, too.
from Cocoa import NSArray, NSData, NSPropertyListSerialization, NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0
plist = [dict(key1='val', key2='val2'), dict(key1='val', key2='val2')]
NSPropertyListSerialization.dataWithPropertyList_format_options_error(plist,
NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0,
?,
?)
This is how I'm reading in the plist on the iPhone side.
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSPropertyListFormat format;
NSString *err;
id it = [NSPropertyListSerialization
propertyListFromData:data
mutabilityOption:0
format:&format
errorDescription:&err];
Happy to clarify if any of this doesn't make sense.
I believe the correct function name is
NSPropertyListSerialization.dataWithPropertyList_format_options_error_
because of the ending :
.
(BTW, if the object is always an array or dictionary, -writeToFile:atomically:
will write the plist (as XML format) already.)
As KennyTM said, you're missing the trailing underscore in the method name. In PyObjC you need to take the Objective-C selector name (dataWithPropertyList:format:options:error:
) and replace all of the colons with underscores (don't forget the last colon, too!). That gives you dataWithPropertyList_format_options_error_
(note the trailing underscore). Also, for the error
parameter, you can just use None
. That makes your code look like this:
bplist = NSPropertyListSerialization.dataWithPropertyList_format_options_error_(
plist,
NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0,
0,
None)
# bplist is an NSData object that you can operate on directly or
# write to a file...
bplist.writeToFile_atomically_(pathToFile, True)
If you test the resulting file, you'll see that it's a Binary PList file, as desired:
Jagaroth:~/Desktop $ file test.plist
test.plist: Apple binary property list
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