Re: Logging NSData

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Ivan,

> Could it be preferring -localizedDescription? Is -localizedDescription also 
> implemented? Just guessing here.

Thanks for the hint. I tried that, but still no avail! :-(

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

 Andreas

>> I am logging out NSDictionaries that sometimes contain NSData instances as 
>> values. On MacOSX NSData::description is called to determine a string that 
>> is used in the output. I don't want to see tons of hex values for large 
>> NSData objects in the output and therefore wrote the following category:
>> 
>> @implementation NSData (SRDataExtension)
>> 
>> - (NSString *)description
>> {
>>  return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<data of length %d>", [self length]];
>> }
>> 
>> @end
>> 
>> This works great on MacOSX but not under GNUstep. It seems that description 
>> is not called under GNUstep when a dictionary is logged out with
>> 
>>      NSLog(@"dic %@", dic);
>> 
>> Any idea?
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