Viewing NSData contents in Xcode

Question

I am running Xcode and I would like to dump out a NSData*. The variable in question is buffer. Is there a way to do this through the UI or the GDB debugger?

Answer 1

I posted this as an answer to this relevant question:

Once you place a breakpoint, run, and the program stops at the breakpoint, hover your cursor over the variable/value you want to see like this:

You could also place an NSLog(@"%@", yourLabel.text); to view the contents of that label/other object type.

One other option is to run GDB in the console like this:

gdb
attach 

And then use the po (print-object) command to view the value of a variable like this:

po variableName

To view the value of primitive types (int, float, long, double, char, etc.), you can just use the print command while running GDB in the console like this:

print yourPrimitiveVariable

Hope this helps!

EDIT:

With the po command, you can print out the value of an object using both the property name (self.myProperty) or the ivar name (possibly _myProperty). I demonstrate this here: