Converting to NSDictionary

[Lelelo1]

Converting to NSDictionary

Here is my current implementation

public static NSDictionary ToNSDictionary(this Dictionary<string, object> dict)
{
    var nsDict = NSDictionary.FromObjectsAndKeys(dict.Values?.ToArray()
                                               , dict.Keys.ToArray());
    return nsDict;
}

However I get into trouble when having a value in Dictionary of List<string> and therefore I am unable send lists as a event property to Mixpanel.
Do someone have a nice implementation that supports providing list as value to NSDictionary, so it can be sent to Mixpanel?

[Brad]

Is sending lists supported by Mixpanel? I have not attempted to use this personally as our things are either key->string or key->int.

[Lelelo1]

Yes it says list are supported.
Since I am only looking to use List<string> for now - I think I will just make it a comma separated string. But I will test to see what happens if I put a NSArray directly into the NSDictionary and see if it's currently possible.

[Lelelo1]

nsDictionary.SetValueForKey(NSArray.FromStrings("one", "two", "three"), nsEventPropertyName)

Works and shows up in Mixpanel. Shows each element in the array has value

.. one is shown at the top of the list of values

I assume my own approach with using a single string would have it appear as one value

[Brad]

Oh nice! Glad you got it sorted.

I agree, a single string with commas probably would have just made it a single entry.

This does make me wonder though about things going forwards with this library. I do plan to add a Xam.Plugin.Mixpanel.Forms where it will do the internal stuff of converting dictionaries where needed. I wonder if I should put a helper class within Xam.Plugin.Mixpanel.iOS to handle Dict/List conversion and then the new Forms library just uses that internally.