Humor my OCD :)
I have a method (as part of a category adding on to NSMutableData) I'm
trying to name in a "by the conventions" fa****on. It works fine -
nothing wrong there. I just don't like the way the method declaration,
or calls to it, look - it seems "klunky". So I wonder how other folks
would name it to make it more "elegant".
As an NSMutableData object loaded with arbitrary data, it needs to hunt
for two "magic strings" within itself, grab the data between those two
"magic strings", turn it into an NSString, and hand it back to the
caller. The "magic strings" might be practically any length, and it's
typical that they wont have any resemblance to each other - For
instance, the first one might be "Magic String 1 ", and the second might
be " Blow It Out Your Ear". Given that, and the (admittedly contrived)
block of data that follows, I need the NSString that comes back from an
invocation of the method to be "This Is The Part I Want":
The data block:
This is just some random garbage that I'm typing as an example Magic
String 1 This Is The Part I Want Blow It Out Your Ear and more data
follows that may or may not be related
For the moment, I've got the method coded like so:
// MyNSMutableExtensions.h
// elide boilerplate #im****ts and other irrelevancies to save space
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NSMutableData (MyExtensions)
- (NSString *)GetStringDelimitedBy:(NSString *)Delim1
EndingWith:(NSString *)Delim2;
// elide more irrelevancies
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
assuming "TheObject" is an NSMutableData object holding (at least...)
the data block shown above, the following code hands me back "This Is
The Part I Want" in Result - exactly as I want it to:
NSString *Result;
NSString *MS1 = @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Magic String 1 ";
NSString *MS2 = @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" Blow It Out Your Ear"
Result = [TheObject getStringDelimitedBy:MS1 endingWith:MS2];
Like I said, it WORKS fine. But my personal sense of style says it
*LOOKS LIKE* complete crap.
How would *YOU* name such a method?
Special note on my intentions:
I need to use this method many times, with at least a dozen (so far...
that number is quite likely to increase as the project develops)
different sets of "Magic Strings", so it's probably best to keep the
naming as generic as practical, while still retaining as much "self
do***entation" as possible. As I've got it coded right now, it seems to
me like it's lacking in the "self do***entation" department, despite
being absolutely perfect in the "Does one thing and does it well"
category.
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