Saving Array to Plist file that contains Custom Objects iPhone

Question

I have a class called XYZ inheriting from NSObject and an array which contains objects of XYZ. I need to write this array to a plist file on to documents directory. After trying

Answer 1

There is a very good tutorial on the Ray Wenderlich's blog which explains how to work with the NSCoding.

Simply you just have to implement the *-(void)encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder )encode and *-(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder )decoder methods in your object that respects the NSCoding protocol like that:

// Header
@interface AnObject: NSObject 

// Implementation
- (void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)encoder {
    [encoder encodeObject:ivar1 forKey:@"ivar1"];
    [encoder encodeFloat:ivar2 forKey:@"ivar2"];
}

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder {
    self = [super initWithCoder:coder];
    ivar1 = [[coder decodeObjectForKey:@"ivar1"] retain];
    ivar2 = [[coder decodeObjectForKey:@"ivar2"] retain];
    return self;
}

You can also check the official documentation here.