Archiving Notes
There is a preliminary implementation of NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver which should be compatible with the OS X version.
NSKeyedUnarchiver reads the entire plist into memory before constructing the object graph, it should construct it incrementally as does Foundation on OS X
Paths that raise errors vs. calling _fatalError() need to be reviewed carefully
The signature of the decoding APIs that take a class whitelist has changed from NSSet to [AnyClass] as AnyClass does not support Hashable. The API change has been marked Experimental.
classForKeyed[Un]Archiver has moved into NSObject so it can be overridden, move this back into an extension eventually
Classes
Implemented
- NSArray
- NSCalendar
- NSCFArray (encodes as NSArray)
- NSCFDictionary (encodes as NSDictionary)
- NSCFSet (encodes as NSSet)
- NSCFString (encodes as NSString)
- NSConcreteValue
- NSData
- NSDate
- NSDictionary
- NSError
- NSLocale
- NSNotification
- NSNull (no-op)
- NSOrderedSet
- NSPersonNameComponents
- NSPort (not supported for keyed archiving)
- NSSet
- NSSpecialValue (for limited number of types)
- NSString
- NSTimeZone
- NSURL
- NSUUID
- NSValue (via class cluster hack)
TODO
Pending actual class implementation
Pending coder implementation
- NSAffineTransform
- NSCharacterSet
- NSDecimalNumber
- NSDecimalNumberHandler
- NSExpression
- NSIndexPath
- NSIndexSet
- NSPredicate
- NSSortDescriptor
- NSTextCheckingResult
- NSURLAuthenticationChallenge
- NSURLCache
- NSURLCredential
- NSURLProtectionSpace
- NSURLRequest