What are some good Xcode scripts to speed up development?

Question

Xcode allows you to create automated scripts for performing repetitive tasks. What scripts have you written to speed up development?

Answer 1

Here's one to create a -description method for a class. Highlight the instance variables declaration section (@interface ... { ... }) and execute the script. Then paste the result into your implementation. I use this one along with po objectName in GDB. If FIXME shows up in the output it means it's an unrecognized type. You can either add it to the script or choose the proper format specifier manually.

#!/usr/bin/python

# Create description method for class
# Selection
# Selection
# Insert after Selection
# Display in Alert

import sys
import re

input = sys.stdin.read()

className = re.findall("""(?:@interface )(\w*)""", input)[0]
vars = re.findall("""(\w*[ ][*]?)(\w*?)_?;""", input)

outputStrings = ["- (NSString *)description {\n"]
outputStrings.append("""return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s :\\n"\n@"  -""" % className)

for type, var in vars:
    outputStrings.append("%s:" % var)
    if "**" in type:
        outputStrings.append("%p")
    elif "*" in type:
        if "char" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%c")
        else:
            outputStrings.append("%@")
    else:
        if "int" in type or "NSInteger" in type or "BOOL" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%i")
        elif "NSUInteger" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%u")
        elif "id" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%@")
        elif "NSTimeInterval" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%f")
        elif "SEL" in type:
            outputString.append("%s")
        else:
            outputStrings.append('"FIXME"')

    if not var == vars[-1][1]:
        outputStrings.append(',\\n"\n@"  -')

outputStrings.append("\"")

for type, var in vars:
    outputStrings.append(",\n")
    outputStrings.append("[self %s]" % var)

outputStrings.append("];\n}")

print "".join(outputStrings),