NSObjectFromString ... Any way to do this?

Question

So Objective-C has these wonderful functions NSClassFromString()and NSProtocolFromString()that return a class or protocol from the passed string name. Is there a way to do this using an object?

Answer 1

No, because objects do not have canonical names or string representations. With the class, there is either a class called "NSWindow" or not. With objects this correspondence does not apply. If you want to serialize an object, see the NSCoding protocol and related documentation .

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you want to instantiate an object, you can also do this

Class class = NSClassFromString(className);
id object = [class new];