What's the easiest way to create an array of structs?

Question

What\'s the easiest way to create an array of structs in Cocoa?

Answer 1

If you want to use an NSArray you'll need to box up your structs. You can use the NSValue class to encode them.

Something like this to encode:

struct foo {
    int bar;
};

struct foo foobar;
foobar.bar = 3;
NSValue *boxedFoobar = [NSValue valueWithBytes:&foobar objCType:@encode(struct foo)];

And then to get it back out:

struct foo newFoobar;

if (strcmp([boxedFoobar objCType], @encode(struct foo)) == 0)
    [boxedFoobar getValue:&newFoobar];