Coerce NSDictionary to AS Record

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#1

Hi,

when i read a plist file from disk with:

tell current application’s NSDictionary
set myDict to dictionaryWithContentsOfFile_(“/Users/adminosx/Desktop/example.plist”)
end tell

the myDict contains something like AS Records.
But when I access to the fields I have to coerce as string or as integer… every single field.
Is possible to coerce all myDict to AS record with:

set myDict to myDict as record

Any limitations about this conversion? From my test all seems to works good.

Ame

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#2

Hi,

coercing a NSDictionary to AppleScript record is fine.
NSString, NSNumber, NSArray and NSDictionary are coerced to their AppleScript equivalents
Consider that NSDate is not coerced to an AppleScript date object.

#3

Indeed. Here are a couple of handlers for that conversion:

on makeNSDateFrom_(theASDate)
	set refDate to date "Friday, 1 January 1904 0:00:00 +1000" as date
	set theDiff to theASDate - refDate - 3.061152E+9 - (time to GMT) + (current application's NSTimeZone's localTimeZone()'s daylightSavingTimeOffset()) as real
	set newDate to current application's NSDate's dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate_(theDiff)
	return newDate
end makeNSDateFrom_

on makeASDateFrom_(theNSDate)
	set refDate to date "Friday, 1 January 1904 0:00:00 +1000" as date
	set theDiff to theNSDate's timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate()
	return refDate + theDiff div 1 - 3.061152E+9 + (time to GMT) - (current application's NSTimeZone's localTimeZone()'s daylightSavingTimeOffset()) as real
end makeASDateFrom_