I need to store a large collection of settings (not application preferences, but parameters describing how complex data is to be displayed) and am looking for pros/cons as to the best way.
At the top I have a class called MySettings. Within this I need to have groups of related settings. They can either be NSMutableDictionary or a custom class containing properties, but no methods. @interface MySettings : NSObject { MySettingsAppearance* appearance; // size, graphic style etc. MySettingsColors* colors; // colors for different elements MySettingsLocations* locations; // array of data ... About 8 more like these ... } In this way I could do something like: [[settings appearance] width] [[settings colors] centerline] [[[settings locations] allLocations] objectAtIndex:i] Alternatively I could do: @interface MySettings : NSObject { NSMutableDictionary* appearance; // size, graphic style etc. NSMutableDictionary* colors; // colors for different elements NSMutableDictionary* locations; // array of data ... About 8 more like these ... } [[settings appearance] objectForKey:kSettingsAppearanceWidth] [[settings colors] objectForKey:kSettingsColorCenterline] [[[settings locations] objectForKey:kSettingsLocationsAll] objectAtIndex:i] All the data in the dictionaries (or custom property-only classes) will be standard types: NSNumber, NSData, NSString, NSColor (which will have to be archived to convert it to NSData for saving). Thoughts on the pros and cons of both methods? It feels weird to create a class that has zero methods (other than getters/setters). Thanks, Trygve _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com