passed record to NSMutableArray not writing to file

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#1

Hi All,

Have been in ObjC land for a while - getting back to ASOC and stuck on writeToFile

I have an array controller which is bound to two tables with a AS record for the data. This all works fine.

There’s an array element called “zipfiles”

I made a list of records from a file list:

set modDatesList to {}
    repeat with i from 1 to count of completeFileList
        set thisFile to item i of completeFileList as string
        set thisSize to size  of (info for (thisFile as POSIX file))
        copy {localFile:thisFile,fileSize:thisSize} to end of modDatesList
 end repeat

and then

set thisMut to NSMutableArray's alloc()'s init()
thisMut's addObjectsFromArray_(Backupset's arrangedObjects())
set thisObj to thisMut's objectAtIndex_(0)
thisObj's setValue_forKey_(modDatesList, "zipfiles")

thisMut's writeToFile_atomically_(FILE_PATH, true)

I won’t write the updated array with the the list records to plist

If I pass it a simple


set modDatesList to [{"A","B","C"},{"1","2","3"}}

it works but oddly not all the time. I check the plist and it doesn’t get updated, only sometimes. No errors reported. A bit perplexed why this isn’t a simple matter. Well, it probably is. Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks, Rob

#2

Add some logging. Log the class as well as the contents of things like thisObj and modDatesList at key points.

#3

Yes- after a few more hours of logging and searching I had forgot that I had images in my record data (old long story) which I usually remove at quit time. I didn’t remove them in this case so no writing to file. Also was passing an applescript date to the array which failed very silently - fixed with Shane’s ASDateToNSDate ford. Thanks for that time saver Shane!

Rob