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May 15, 2017 | Marin Usalj Launch argumentsthe mysteries

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ @supermarin supermar.in Marin Usalj

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Author of Alcatraz, xcpretty

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Agenda

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Process Arguments Agenda

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Process Arguments Advanced usage Agenda

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Process Arguments Advanced usage Gotchas Agenda

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Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ ls -la $ git commit -a -m 'yolo' Process arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Used by exec() family of functions (execve on OSX) Process Arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Used by exec() family of functions (execve on OSX) Launching binaries, scripts with #! Process Arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Used by exec() family of functions (execve on OSX) Launching binaries, scripts with #! In C-family of languages, main(argc, argv) Process Arguments

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ +(id)launchParametersWithSchemeIde ntifier: launcherIdentifier: debuggerIdentifier: launchStyle: runnableLocation: debugProcessAsUID: workingDirectory: commandLineArgs: environmentVariables: architecture: platformIdentifier: buildConfiguration: buildableProduct: Launching, Xcode style deviceAppDataPackage: allowLocationSimulation: locationScenarioReference: routingCoverageFileReference: enableOpenGLFrameCaptureMode: enableOpenGLPerformanceAnalysisMo de: simulatorIPhoneDisplay: simulatorIPadDisplay: debugXPCServices: additionalXPCServicesToDebug: internalIOSLaunchStyle: internalIOSSubstitutionApp: launchAutomaticallySubstyle:

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Demo ⏲

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ There are a number of options that can be passed into a target’s scheme to enable useful debugging behavior, but like a fast food secret menu, they’re obscure and widely unknown. MATTT THOMPSON, NSHIPSTER

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ In most programming environments, you handle arguments by yourself How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ In most programming environments, you handle arguments by yourself Bash: getopt, getopts How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ In most programming environments, you handle arguments by yourself Bash: getopt, getopts Ruby: OptionParser (and n^2345 others) How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ In most programming environments, you handle arguments by yourself Bash: getopt, getopts Ruby: OptionParser (and n^2345 others) Python: argparse How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ How does this work?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ In Cocoa, there's a little bit of

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Arguments are parsed by Cocoa Parsing in Cocoa

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Arguments are parsed by Cocoa Injected on top of NSUserDefaults Parsing in Cocoa

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Arguments are parsed by Cocoa Injected on top of NSUserDefaults No need to store a value into NSUserDefaults to read it from args Parsing in Cocoa

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Arguments are parsed by Cocoa Injected on top of NSUserDefaults No need to store a value into NSUserDefaults to read it from args Anything stored in NSUserDefaults can be overridden Parsing in Cocoa

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup app

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app Launch args conference = SwiftSummit conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app Launch args conference = SwiftSummit conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin objectForKey: "speaker"

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app Launch args conference = SwiftSummit conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin objectForKey: "speaker" "Marin"

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app Launch args conference = SwiftSummit conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin objectForKey: "conference" objectForKey: "speaker" "Marin"

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ NSUserDefaults lookup NSUserDefaults app Launch args conference = SwiftSummit conference = NSSpain speaker = Marin objectForKey: "conference" "SwiftSummit" objectForKey: "speaker" "Marin"

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ What do I do with this?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Changing app behavior without recompiling

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ First approach: UIAutomation with a hidden server selector Bring up UI, type URI letter by letter Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ First approach: UIAutomation with a hidden server selector Bring up UI, type URI letter by letter Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Lyft's use case

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Recompile the app with hardcoded server address Given each compilation is ~5 minutes, this would waste at least 50 CI minutes for each developer push. Recompile?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Inject a file in the bundle after compilation Almost a viable solution, requires adding specific code for reading the bundle and overriding our servers. Inject a file?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Launch the app with arguments overriding server endpoints Challenge: server environment stored as a nested Dictionary More than one endpoint to override (analytics for example) Launch arguments?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ "navigation": "Waze", "servers": { "api": "https://api.dev.lyft.com", "analytics": "https://analytics.dev.lyft.com" } Launch arguments?

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Advanced usage

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers.api "http://..." \ -servers.analytics "http://..." \ Key paths?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -navigation Waze -servers '{ "foo": "bar" }' JSON?

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Quiz ⏲

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers '{ api = https://api.staging.lyft.com; analytics = https://analytics.staging.lyft.com; lastOpened = 2016-09-18T01:29:01Z; }' -conference FrenchKit -speaker 'Marin Usalj' NeXTSTEP plists

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers '{ api = https://api.staging.lyft.com; analytics = https://analytics.staging.lyft.com; lastOpened = 2016-09-18T01:29:01Z; }' -conference FrenchKit -speaker 'Marin Usalj' NeXTSTEP plists

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers 'yolo' Built in XML reader 1. Try to parse XML from 'yolo' 2. Try to parse Plist from 'yolo' 3. Just String('yolo')

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers 'yolo' Built in XML reader 1. Try to parse XML from 'yolo' 2. Try to parse Plist from 'yolo' 3. Just String('yolo')

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ $ lyft -servers 'yolo' Built in XML reader 1. Try to parse XML from 'yolo' 2. Try to parse Plist from 'yolo' 3. Just String('yolo')

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Gotchas

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Overwriting values after launch won't work after app launch Watch out on places where you're reading / writing to NSUserDefaults Gotchas

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ UserDefaults is a key-value Store with String keys Value types: String, Data, Number, Date, Array, and Dictionary Gotchas

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ open func string(forKey defaultName: String) -> String? open func array(forKey defaultName: String) -> [Any]? open func dictionary(forKey defaultName: String) -> [String : Any]? open func data(forKey defaultName: String) -> Data? open func stringArray(forKey defaultName: String) -> [String]? open func integer(forKey defaultName: String) -> Int open func float(forKey defaultName: String) -> Float open func double(forKey defaultName: String) -> Double open func bool(forKey defaultName: String) -> Bool open func url(forKey defaultName: String) -> URL? UserDefaults helpers

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ /*! -integerForKey: is equivalent to -objectForKey:, except that it converts the returned value to an NSInteger. If the value is an NSNumber, the result of - integerValue will be returned. If the value is an NSString, it will be converted to NSInteger if possible. If the value is a boolean, it will be converted to either 1 for YES or 0 for NO. If the value is absent or can't be converted to an integer, 0 will be returned. */ Gotchas

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ XML tags CoreFoundation type XML Tag Storage format CFString UTF-8 encoded string CFNumber , Decimal string CFBoolean , No data (tag only) CFDate ISO 8601 formatted string CFData Base64 encoded data CFArray Can contain any number of child elements CFDictionary Alternating tags and plist element tags

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ Thanks LYFT, IDA & BEREN

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ We are hiring!

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May 15, 2017 | MARIN USALJ https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-scheme_editor/Articles/ SchemeRun.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list http://linux.die.net/man/2/execve http://nshipster.com/launch-arguments-and-environment-variables/ http://useyourloaf.com/blog/using-launch-arguments-to-test-localizations/#disqus_thread http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/execv/ References