NSArray has a method to retrieve the name of instance variables oh his objects?

[eagle74]

Maybe the question is a little ambiguous...sorry
I'll try to explain better.

In exercise 5, we have a AddressBook class that contains a NSMutableArray (book).
Inside book there are some objects: AddressCards.
Each AddressCard object has got some instances variables that could be name, address, eMail ...

My question is: does NSArray(or NSMutableArray) have a method to obtain the name of the instance variables of AddressCards?
In my mind it must exist! because AddressBook has got a reference to each object, so it must retrieve its instance variable....

thanks a lot!!

[ctlockey]

From what I've been able to find on this, you have to write your own using the Obj-C runtime libraries to generate an array of object properties. Then you can loop through that array to do whatever you want.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920590/getting-an-array-of-properties-for-an-object-in-objective-c

I'd be interested in the solution Stephen was thinking of when he wrote that question in Exercise 5, too.