MPWFoundation

Marcel Weiher, metaobject GmbH. http://www.metaobject.com

MPWFoundation provides a number of technologies to Cocoa, Cocoa Touch and Objective-C development in general.

• Higher Order Messaging (HOM)
• Point and Rectangle objects
• Efficient numbers and number arrays
• Resource-loading conveniences for NSBundle

Stores

Implementation of in-process REST.

Stores Documentation

Object Filters

Unix pipes and filters meets dynamic messaging.

Filter Documentation

Higher Order Messaging

Messages that can take messages as an argument.

An example, a common delegate pattern that checks if the delegate responds to the message we want to send:

if ( [self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(windowWillClose:)] ) {
    [self.delegate windowWillClose:self];
}

can instead be expressed as

[[self.delegate ifResponds] windowDidClose:self];

Note that the first example, apart from being verbose, also has a bug that gets hidden by the verbosity.

HOM Documentation

Object Cache

Reuse temporary objects, quickly.

Serialization

Serialization Documentation

• Fast and memory-efficient implementation of binary proprerty lists
• Fast CSV parser
• Macro-based conveniences for NSArchiver and NSKeyedArchiver

Some more stuff

Collections

• fast real and integer arrays
• fast (small) dictionary with C-String keys

License

MPWFoundation is Copyright 1998-2018 by Marcel Weiher.
Dual licensed under BSD 3 part and LGPL.