Python for Bioinformatics: XML Reader (3)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

XML Reader (3)

This is third post in a series (others here and here). If you're following along at home, you'll need the code for main.m. This app is built from the command line---no Xcode. We pass in a file name and read it using NSUserDefaults. No error checking---now that'll put hair on your chest!

Just make sure that you have a file called article.xml on your Desktop, and that it's formatted correctly.

// gcc -o test test.m Reader.m -framework Foundation -fobjc-gc-only
// ./test -ifile article.xml
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "Reader.h";

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    NSUserDefaults *args = [NSUserDefaults 
        standardUserDefaults];
    NSString *fn = 
        [args stringForKey:@"ifile"];
    NSURL *xmlURL = 
        [NSURL fileURLWithPath:fn];
    
    Reader *R = [[[Reader alloc] init] retain];
    [R read:xmlURL];
    
    //[R reportAll];
    NSMutableDictionary *mD = [R processEntries];
    NSLog(@"final version %@", mD);
    
    fn = NSHomeDirectory();
    fn = [fn stringByAppendingString:
        @"/Desktop/x.plist"];
    NSURL *fu;
    fu = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:fn];
    NSLog(@"write %@", fu);
    [mD writeToURL:fu atomically:YES];
    return 0;
 }