Get an object properties list in Objective-C

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I just managed to get the answer myself. By using the Obj-C Runtime Library, I had access to the properties the way I wanted:

- (void)myMethod {
    unsigned int outCount, i;
    objc_property_t *properties = class_copyPropertyList([self class], &outCount);
    for(i = 0; i < outCount; i++) {
        objc_property_t property = properties[i];
        const char *propName = property_getName(property);
        if(propName) {
            const char *propType = getPropertyType(property);
            NSString *propertyName = [NSString stringWithCString:propName
                                                                encoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]];
            NSString *propertyType = [NSString stringWithCString:propType
                                                                encoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]];
            ...
        }
    }
    free(properties);
}

This required me to make a ‘getPropertyType’ C function, which is mainly taken from an Apple code sample (can’t remember right now the exact source):

static const char *getPropertyType(objc_property_t property) {
    const char *attributes = property_getAttributes(property);
    char buffer[1 + strlen(attributes)];
    strcpy(buffer, attributes);
    char *state = buffer, *attribute;
    while ((attribute = strsep(&state, ",")) != NULL) {
        if (attribute[0] == 'T') {
            if (strlen(attribute) <= 4) {
                break;
            }
            return (const char *)[[NSData dataWithBytes:(attribute + 3) length:strlen(attribute) - 4] bytes];
        }
    }
    return "@";
}

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