DejalFoundationCategories

DejalFoundationCategories is a collection of Foundation-level categories, to add useful methods to classes like NSArray, NSDictionary, NSString, and others.

They work on both OS X and iOS.

Donations

I wrote DejalFoundationCategories for my own use, but I'm making it available for the benefit of the Mac and iOS developer community.

If you find it useful, a donation via PayPal (or something from my Amazon.com Wish List) would be very much appreciated. Appropriate links can be found on the Dejal Developer page:

http://www.dejal.com/developer

Latest Version

You can find the latest version of this code via the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/Dejal/DejalFoundationCategories

For news on updates, also check out the Dejal Developer page or the Dejal Blog filtered for Dejal categories posts:

http://www.dejal.com/blog/dejalcategories

Environment & Requirements

• All recent versions of OS X or iOS.
• Objective-C language.
• ARC.

Features

• NSArray+Dejal: 30+ methods extending NSArray and NSMutableArray, including object matching, reversal, sorting, deep copying, adding and removing.
• NSAttributedString+Dejal: 10+ methods extending NSAttributedString and NSMutableAttributedString, including convenience initializers, RTF and font methods.
• NSData+Dejal: A couple of methods to make archiving and unarchiving objects slightly more convenient.
• NSDate+Dejal: 50+ methods extending NSDate, including convenience initializers, handy date component properties and calculators, JSON date support, string formatting, and relative date output.
• NSDictionary+Dejal: 25+ methods extending NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary, including object matching, scalar support, deep copying, and more.
• NSFileManager+Dejal: 15+ methods extending NSFileManager, including convenient file attributes, file renaming, and path building.
• NSObject+Dejal: 15+ methods extending the NSObject base class, including key-value conveniences, "equivalent" comparisons, and performSelector methods.
• NSString+Dejal: 80+ methods extending NSString and NSMutableString, including scalar value formatting, contains evaluation, comparisons, substring and range utilities, reformatting, checksum and encoding utilities, internet utilities, file path methods, and appending and replacing methods.
• NSUserDefaults+Dejal: 15+ methods extending NSUserDefaults, including support for default values, sanitizing values, time intervals, factory settings, and copying preferences.

The methods use a dejal_ prefix to ensure uniqueness (important with categories).

Some of the methods date back over 10 years, so may be less useful nowadays, or have outdated code style. But there are still lots of gems that are used in all Dejal apps.

Usage

Include the desired source files in your project. Some of them have interdependencies, some can be used independently.

License and Warranty

This code uses the standard BSD license. See the included License.txt file. Please also see the Dejal Open Source License web page for more information.

You can use this code at no cost, with attribution. A non-attribution license is also available, for a fee.

You're welcome to use it in commercial, closed-source, open source, free or any other kind of software, as long as you credit Dejal appropriately.

The placement and format of the credit is up to you, but I prefer the credit to be in the software's "About" window or view, if any. Alternatively, you could put the credit in the software's documentation, or on the web page for the product. The suggested format for the attribution is:

Includes DejalFoundationCategories code from Dejal.

Where possible, please link the text "Dejal" to the Dejal Developer web page, or include the page's URL: http://www.dejal.com/developer/.

This code comes with no warranty of any kind. I hope it'll be useful to you, but I make no guarantees regarding its functionality or otherwise.

Support / Contact / Bugs / Features

I can't promise to answer questions about how to use the code.

If you create an app that uses the code, please tell me about it.

If you want to submit a feature request or bug report, please use GitHub's issue tracker for this project. Or preferably fork the code and implement the feature/fix yourself, then submit a pull request.

Enjoy!

David Sinclair
Dejal Systems, LLC

Contact: http://www.dejal.com/contact/?subject=DejalFoundationCategories More open source projects: http://www.dejal.com/developer Open source announcements on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dejalopen General Dejal news on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dejal