I need to represent a NSInteger and NSString into array of bytes. below are the sample of what I am looking for.
For how, this harcodings are working fine. I want to do this through code. Any clue.
First, NSInteger into bytes of Hex:
NSInteger test = 1;
unsigned char byte[] = { 0x00, 0x01 };
NSInteger test = 16;
unsigned char byte[] = { 0x00, 0x10 };
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:byte length:sizeof(byte)];
Second, NSString into bytes of Hex:
NSString *test = @"31C5B562-BD07-4616-BCBD-130BA6822790";
unsigned char byte[] = {0x31, 0xC5, 0xB5, 0x62, 0xBD, 0x07, 0x46, 0x16, 0xBC, 0xBD, 0x13, 0x0B, 0xA6, 0x82, 0x27, 0x90};
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:byte length:sizeof(byte)];
I tried with below code and it works well for my UUID but for NSInteger to to be working I need to send "0010" instead of 16 and "0001" instead of 1. So any clue on how to do this conversion.
- (NSData *)hexData {
NSMutableData *hexData = [NSMutableData data];
int idx = 0;
for (idx = 0; idx+2 <= self.length; idx+=2) {
NSRange range = NSMakeRange(idx, 2);
NSString* hexStr = [self substringWithRange:range];
NSScanner* scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:hexStr];
unsigned int intValue;
[scanner scanHexInt:&intValue];
[hexData appendBytes:&intValue length:1];
}
return hexData;
}
EDIT:
int8_t test = -59;
int8_t bytes = CFSwapInt16HostToBig(test);
NSData *data1 = [NSData dataWithBytes:&bytes length:sizeof(bytes)];
Reaching as 0xFF instead of 0xC4
Since your string is a UUID string you can do something like this:
For the number you can do:
Keep in mind that
NSInteger
is probably more than two bytes and you may also need to worry about byte order.Update: Since it seems you need the integer value to be two bytes, you should do:
This will ensure 2 bytes. You also need to worry about byte ordering so you really need:
Change
CFSwapInt16HostToBig
toCFSwapInt16HostToLitte
if appropriate.