Cocoa: How to save NSAttributedString to JSON

Question

I have a NSAttributedString object as a property of a custom object. I need to save this custom object to the disk in JSON format. Later I need to

Answer 1

You could use this simple code snippet to convert NSAttributedString to XML without actually parsing NSAttributedString. This can be a human-readable alternative to JSON if you can afford verbose text output.

It can be also used for decoding back to NSAttributedString.

    let data = NSMutableData()

    let archiver = NSKeyedArchiver(forWritingWithMutableData: data)
    archiver.outputFormat = .XMLFormat_v1_0
    textView.attributedText.encodeWithCoder(archiver)
    archiver.finishEncoding()

    let textAsString = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)'