NSArray writeToFile fails

Question

I am trying to save an array, which has some dictionaries inside, to a plist file but it fails. I don\'t get any errors. I do exactly the same few lines above in the code ju

Answer 1

I convert NSArray or NSDictionary to NSData before serializing. Following is a category on nsarray for serializing and deserializing. This comfortableby handles some data being nsnull

@implementation NSArray(Plist)

-(BOOL)writeToPlistFile:(NSString*)filename{
    NSData * data = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:self];
    NSArray * paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString * documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename];
    BOOL didWriteSuccessfull = [data writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
    return didWriteSuccessfull;
}

+(NSArray*)readFromPlistFile:(NSString*)filename{
    NSArray * paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString * documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename];
    NSData * data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
    return  [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data];
}

@end //needs to be set for implementation