FoundationSafety

A collection of categories designed to make working with Foundation collections safer.

Who here hasn't caused a crash in production because of an out of bounds exception on an NSArray, or a valueForUndefinedKey for an NSDictionary? I'm not a huge fan of constantly having to type

if (theIndexIWantToAccess < theArrayImUsing.count) {
    //Now I'm safe
} else {
    //I would have crashed here
}

Call me lazy, be a hater, just know that these categories aren't meant to replace writing correct code. These categories are predicated on the fact that we make mistakes and these mistakes should be learned from while not crashing production apps.

This means that some remote logging should probably be set up so that we can actually learn from the times these categories prevent a crash.

These categories currently contain safety methods for:

NSArray / NSMutableArray
NSDictionary / NSMutableDictionary
NSObject (just to support the items above)

Installation

Default installation is of course by CocoaPods:

pod install FoundationSafety

otherwise there's always submodules :)

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!

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FoundationSafety

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