macOS Daemonology: Communicate with Daemons, Agents, and Helpers Through XPC

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V. VashurkinmacOS Daemonologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7277-0_12

12. Pass Objects by Copy Over XPC Using NSSecureCoding

Volodymyr Vashurkin¹  

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Dnipro, Ukraine

 

In real-world scenarios, developers deal not with primitive types but with custom types that aggregate primitives. This chapter covers the topic of passing custom (aggregate) objects over XPC.

All objects passed over an NSXPC connection must conform to NSSecureCoding.

Apple provides such conforming for lots of classes such as NSString, NSURL, NSArray, NSImage, and so on.

But if you want to pass your own class over an XPC connection, you should conform to NSSecureCoding manually. Conforming ...