jbw-builders

Builder categories for NSURL and NSDate. The builder category adds a builder pattern based convenience initializer to easily build these classes. Instead of creating a custom builder object, the build in foundation NS*Components objects are used.

By Joris Kluivers

• Accompanying blog post: The Builder Pattern in Objective-C Foundation
• Follow @kluivers on Twitter

Example

NSDate *testDate = [NSDate gregorianDateWithBuilderBlock:^(NSDateComponents *builder) {
    builder.year = 2014;
    builder.month = 4;
    builder.day = 8;
    builder.hour = 12;
}];

NSURL *testURL = [NSURL URLWithBuilderBlock:^(NSURLComponents *builder) {
    builder.host = @"joris.kluivers.nl";
    builder.scheme = @"http";
}];