Cocoa structs and NSMutableArray

Question

I have an NSMutableArray that I'm trying to store and access some structs. How do I do this? 'addObject' gives me an error saying "Incompatible type for argument 1 of addObject". Here is an example ('in' is a NSFileHandle, 'array' is the NSMutableArray):

//Write points
for(int i=0; i<5; i++) {
    struct Point p;
    buff = [in readDataOfLength:1];
    [buff getBytes:&(p.x) length:sizeof(p.x)];
    [array addObject:p];
}

//Read points
for(int i=0; i<5; i++) {
    struct Point p = [array objectAtIndex:i];
    NSLog(@"%i", p.x);
}

Georg Fritzsche · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-01 09:29:20Z

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As mentioned, NSValue can wrap a plain struct using +value:withObjCType: or -initWithBytes:objCType::

// add:
[array addObject:[NSValue value:&p withObjCType:@encode(struct Point)]];

// extract:
struct Point p;
[[array objectAtIndex:i] getValue:&p];

See the Number and Value guide for more examples.

answered Jun 1, 2010 at 9:29

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Chris Cooper · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-30 05:14:28Z

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You are getting errors because NSMutableArray can only accept references to objects, so you should wrap your structs in a class:

@interface PointClass {
     struct Point p;
}

@property (nonatomic, assign) struct Point p;

This way, you can pass in instances of PointClass.

Edit: As mentioned above and below, NSValue already provides this in a more generic way, so you should go with that.

edited Sep 30, 2012 at 5:14

answered Jun 1, 2010 at 2:36

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JWWalker · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-01 02:41:15Z

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You could use NSValue, or in some cases it might make sense to use a dictionary instead of a struct.

answered Jun 1, 2010 at 2:41

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