Custom assertion

Thanks to the article by Mike Ash (see legal at the bottom) I came to the realization that the assertions provided by default although good in principle lack a lot of potential and decided that a better one could be done with some simple tweakings from the code in the article.
For this I created a "custom" assertion that also supports the use of CocoaLumberjack and has a "hack" to throw exceptions when the assertion fails (instead of just aborting).

The assertion has a couple of possible "configurations" explained below.

Features supported

• Assertion supports the use of CocoaLumberjack [GitHub Repo] for more detailed logging.
  • In order to use it you need to set the PREPROCESSOR macro USE_LUMBERJACK=1 and configure the loggers for CocoaLumberjack (demo app does this)
• Assertion also supports a "hack" to make the assertion reach the CrashReport via a flag that will output the assert as an exception.
  Note: The "extra" data will just appear in the CrashReport pointing to the line where the assertion was called.
  • To do this specify the PREPROCESSOR macro kSHOULD_THROW_EXCEPTION=1 and this will make the assertion to build a "custom" exception with the following data:
    • Message: Assertion Failure - #expression
    • Reason: #expression
    • User Info:
      • File: File name where the assertion failed
      • Line: Line number on the file where the assertion failed
      • Function: The name of the function where the assertion failed
      • Message: The custom message provided to the assertion (if any)

To-Do

• Add support for FlurrySDK (Logging the custom exception to Flurry as a way to reach all the possible data)
• Add support for Crittercism (Same as FlurrySDK)
• Add an automatic way of sending the CocoaLumberjack logs compressed to a desired location

Legal

Based on an article by Mike Ash - Friday Q&A 2013-05-03: Proper Use of Asserts

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And used under this license

License

This code is under the GNU GPL License attached to the repository. Link to file here.