On Apr 10, 2012, at 15:09 , Lee Ann Rucker wrote:

> 
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
> 
>> Are there functions provided in the Objective-C runtime to convert property 
>> names? For example, say I have a key name like "fooKey", and I want to get 
>> "FooKey", or the setter name "setFooKey" from it. I could do the name 
>> munging myself, but I wonder if there aren't edge cases. For example, 
>> "setURL" should covert to "URL", not "uRL".
>> 
>> In my particular case, I'm trying to implement functionality like 
>> +keyPathsForValuesAffecting<Key>. It takes a key name (usually something 
>> that starts with a lower-case letter) and changes it to start with an 
>> upper-case letter, then appends it to "keyPathsForValuesAffecting" to create 
>> the selector name.
>> 
>> Are those conversion methods provided anywhere? I looked through the Obj-C 
>> runtime and didn't see anything, but I didn't read every single page.
>> 
> 
> I've used keyPathsForValues.. and my own variants extensively and I've never 
> needed to know the setFoo version of my key names. What are you doing that 
> depends on setter names? Maybe there's a better way.

In this case, I don't need it. I just listed that for completeness' sake. There 
should be routines that do the same thing the compiler and runtime do.



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