I am writing a text-editor and I would need to store a few pieces of information (generally just a few strings; the storage needn't be particularly durable) with each file the app saves (without that being part of the text-file as other apps might read it and the info is only specific to my app).
How would I go about this?
More info: I have a NSDocument set up and I would like to simply store a NSString instance variable as a per file meta-datum. Based on the answers below I've come up with this, which is currently buggy and causes the program to crash on startup:
#import <sys/xattr.h>
@interface MyDocument : NSDocument {
NSString *metadatum;
}
@implementation MyDocument
- (BOOL)writeToURL:(NSURL *)url ofType:(NSString *)type error:(NSError **)err
{
BOOL output = [super writeToURL:url ofType:type error:err];
if(!setxattr([[url path] cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],
"eu.gampleman.xattrs.style",
[metadatum cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],
sizeof(char) * [styleName length], 0, 0))
{
NSLog(@"Write failure");
}
return output;
}
- (BOOL)readFromURL:(NSURL *)url ofType:(NSString *)type error:(NSError **)err {
char *output;
ssize_t bytes = getxattr([[url path] cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],
"eu.gampleman.xattrs.style", &output, 1024, 0, 0);
if (bytes > 0) {
metadatum = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:output length:bytes
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // <- crashes here with "EXC_BAD_ACCESS"
}
return [super readFromURL:url ofType:type error: err];
}
// ...
// fairly standard -dataOfType:error: and
// -readFromData:ofType:error: implementations
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