Print NSData as text

[ZevEisenberg]

I often get NSData representing UTF-8-encoded strings back from APIs. What I want essentially comes down to a shortcut for:

po [[NSString alloc] initWithData:(NSData *)self.mutableData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding

But it would need to coexist with the existing feature to print NSData representing an image. It might also be nice to have an option to copy the resulting text to the clipboard, or open it in $EDITOR or maybe even a configurable app (e.g. TextMate or CocoaJSONEditor).

Posting this here to get feedback on what kind of features/options people would want. Would you want other encodings besides UTF-8? How would the interface for that work? If there is interest and some consensus on the interface, I can probably submit a PR.

[mmmulani]

I would stick to UTF-8, IMO the other encoding don't really matter.

I like the idea of copying to clipboard, opening in editor, etc. but maybe have that as a separate command, so you could chain them like:

pstr dataVariable
$12 = @"..."
copy $12
<$12 is now on the clipboard>
editor $12
<open $EDITOR with $12>

[kastiglione]

Chisel has a pdata command added by @bartoszj in #83.

[ZevEisenberg]

Cool, that looks like exactly what I was hoping for.

[kastiglione]

Thanks for submitting ideas! Keep em coming 🎇