Convert unsigned char array to NSData and back

Question

How do you convert an unsigned char array to an NSData in objective c?

This is what I am trying to do, but it doesn't work. Buffer is my unsigned char array.

NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:message length:length];

Answer 1

You can just use this NSData class method

+ (id)dataWithBytes:(const void *)bytes length:(NSUInteger)length

Something like

NSUInteger size = // some size
unsigned char array[size];
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithBytes:(const void *)array length:sizeof(unsigned char)*size];

You can then get the array back like this (if you know that it is the right data type)

NSUInteger size = [data length] / sizeof(unsigned char);
unsigned char* array = (unsigned char*) [data bytes];