Calling a selector with unknown number of arguments using reflection / introspection

Question

Lately I wrote an application in java (for android) which used reflection to invoke methods of some objects. The argument number and type was unknown, meaning, I had a unifi

Answer 1

This small function should do the trick, its not perfect, but it gives you a starting point:

void invokeSelector(id object, SEL selector, NSArray *arguments)
{
    Method method = class_getInstanceMethod([object class], selector);
    int argumentCount = method_getNumberOfArguments(method);

    if(argumentCount > [arguments count])
        return; // Not enough arguments in the array

    NSMethodSignature *signature = [object methodSignatureForSelector:selector];
    NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:signature];
    [invocation setTarget:object];
    [invocation setSelector:selector];

    for(int i=0; i<[arguments count]; i++)
    {
        id arg = [arguments objectAtIndex:i];
        [invocation setArgument:&arg atIndex:i+2]; // The first two arguments are the hidden arguments self and _cmd
    }

    [invocation invoke]; // Invoke the selector
}