Convert an object into NSDictionary

Question

Is there any generic implementation which converts any Object into NSDictionary, sets all variable names as keys and values as dictionary values?

Answer 1

In order to achieve your objective, you can use Key-Value Coding. This protocol provides a mechanism to set values of object properties based on the names of the properties represented as NSString's rather than calling the accessors directly.

In order for it to work, you need to have defined your objects with accessors that follow the naming conventions (easy enough using properties). You can see the NSKeyValueCoding protocol guide here:

http://bit.ly/es6kyH

And the Key-Value Coding programming guide here:

http://bit.ly/fBY3Qa

You'll still have to do the iteration, but it's a good start.

Answer 2

Solved using SBJSONParser, converted NSObject to JSON Representation and then fetched NSDictionary out of it.