Command-line tool for converting PLIST to JSON?

objective-c json plist
dandean picture dandean · May 20, 2011 · Viewed 26.4k times · Source

Is there a command line tool available for converting .plist files to JSON?

If not, what would be the approach for creating one using Objective-C or C on a Mac? For instance, there is JSONKit, for Objective-C. How would one go about opening a .plist file, pass it to JSONKit, and serialize that as JSON?

Answer

Dylan picture Dylan · Jun 12, 2012

If you are on a Mac you can use the plutil tool on the command line (this comes with the developer tools I believe):

plutil -convert json Data.plist

as mentioned in the comments, this will overwrite the existing data. To output to a new file

plutil -convert json -o Data.json Data.plist

Related questions

Generate JSON string from NSDictionary in iOS

I have a dictionary I need to generate a JSON string by using dictionary. Is it possible to convert it? Can you guys please help on this?

Read More
How to use NSJSONSerialization

I have a JSON string (from PHP's json_encode() that looks like this: [{"id": "1", "name":"Aaa"}, {"id": "2", "name":"Bbb"}] I want to parse this into some sort of data structure for my iPhone app. I guess the best thing for …

Read More
How do I parse JSON with Objective-C?

I am new to iPhone. Can anyone tell me the steps to follow to parse this data and get the activity details, first name, and last name? { "#error": false, "#data": { "": { "activity_id": "35336", "user_id": "1", "user_first_name": "Chandra Bhusan", "user_…

Read More