What is __NSArrayI and __NSArrayM? How to convert to NSArray?

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ChangUZ picture ChangUZ · Oct 7, 2011 · Viewed 21.6k times · Source

What is __NSArrayI and __NSArrayM?

__NSArrayI(or M) cause "unrecognized selector" error.

How to convert to NSArray?

I did test to parse json, twitter api.

http://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi

==> works fine. parsed object is NSCFDictionary class. (This dictionary contains __NSArrayM class)

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?&screen_name=twitterapi

==> error. parsed object is __NSArrayM class.

Answer

Jason picture Jason · Oct 7, 2011

__NSArrayI is a code-word for an immutable array - that is, a "regular" NSArray which you cannot change.

__NSArrayM is a code-word for a mutable array - that is, NSMutableArray. In NSMutableArray, you can add and remove items.

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