I'm curious, I currently have an NSDictionary
where some values are set to an NSNull
object thanks to the help of json-framework.
The aim is to strip all NSNull
values and replace it with an empty string.
I'm sure someone has done this somewhere? No doubt it is probably a four liner and is simple, I am just far too burnt out to figure this out on my own.
Really simple:
@interface NSDictionary (JRAdditions)
- (NSDictionary *)dictionaryByReplacingNullsWithStrings;
@end
@implementation NSDictionary (JRAdditions)
- (NSDictionary *)dictionaryByReplacingNullsWithStrings {
const NSMutableDictionary *replaced = [self mutableCopy];
const id nul = [NSNull null];
const NSString *blank = @"";
for(NSString *key in self) {
const id object = [self objectForKey:key];
if(object == nul) {
//pointer comparison is way faster than -isKindOfClass:
//since [NSNull null] is a singleton, they'll all point to the same
//location in memory.
[replaced setObject:blank
forKey:key];
}
}
return [replaced copy];
}
@end
Usage:
NSDictionary *someDictThatHasNulls = ...;
NSDictionary *replacedDict = [someDictThatHasNulls dictionaryByReplacingNullsWithStrings];