Insert or update array values in plist

[swapnarachapalli]

Hi,
i need to read the plist file and either insert or update the plist keys with newer values. The values could be array or simple String. How can i do that here ?

-Swapna

[mreinstein]

You can parse the plist file, which will return a JSON object. At that point you could manipulate the json however you see fit, and then call build() to generate an updated version of the plist file.

[swapnarachapalli]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the answer. Can you please help me how to add a "array"
value to key using json ? i was able to add key:value pairs of simple type.

Swapna

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Mike Reinstein notifications@github.com
wrote:

You can parse the plist file, which will return a JSON object. At that
point you could manipulate the json however you see fit, and then call
build() to generate a plist file.

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[mreinstein]

@swapnarachapalli to be honest it's been a while since I've contributed to this library so my memory is a bit rusty. :)

Can you parse a plist that has an array, then inspect the parsed object in the browser console? that should give you a good sense of how to modify an array element.

[decates]

I know this is a while ago, but I needed this for setting arrays and dictionaries, and everything worked as expected:

For a dictionary:

XML:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

The key is modelled as an object, with each key/value pair from the dictionary as a property:

{
  "NSAppTransportSecurity": {
    "NSAllowsArbitraryLoads": true
  }
}

For an array:

XML:

<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
<array>
  <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
  <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown</string>
</array>

The key is modelled as a javascript array:

{
    "UISupportedInterfaceOrientations": [
       "UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait",
       "UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown"
     ],
}