#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
/**
* This protocol let you control conversion between data key
* and class properties
*/
@protocol RMMapping <NSObject>
@optional
// Allow properties to be excluded from parsing data
- (NSArray *)rm_excludedProperties;
// Mapping for properties keys to class properties
- (NSDictionary *)rm_dataKeysForClassProperties;
@end
@interface RMMapper : NSObject
/**
Answer from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/754824/get-an-object-attributes-list-in-objective-c/13000074#13000074
Return dictionary of property name and type from a class.
Useful for Key-Value Coding.
*/
+ (NSDictionary *)propertiesForClass:(Class)cls;
/** Populate existing object with values from dictionary
*/
+ (id) populateObject:(id)obj fromDictionary:(NSDictionary*)dict;
+ (id) populateObject:(id)obj fromDictionary:(NSDictionary*)dict exclude:(NSArray*)excludeArray;
/** Create a new object with given class and populate it with value from dictionary
*/
+ (id) objectWithClass:(Class)cls fromDictionary:(NSDictionary*)dict;
/** Convert an object to a dictionary
*/
+ (NSDictionary*) dictionaryForObject:(id)obj;
+ (NSDictionary*) dictionaryForObject:(id)obj include:(NSArray*)includeArray;
+ (NSMutableDictionary*) mutableDictionaryForObject:(id)obj;
+ (NSMutableDictionary*) mutableDictionaryForObject:(id)obj include:(NSArray*)includeArray;
/** Convert an array of dict to array of object with predefined class
*/
+ (NSArray*) arrayOfClass:(Class)cls fromArrayOfDictionary:(NSArray*)array;
+ (NSMutableArray*) mutableArrayOfClass:(Class)cls fromArrayOfDictionary:(NSArray*)array;
@end
