IORegistry
| Technology area | Installer |
| Availability | Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
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Overview
The IORegistry object provides access to the IOKit registry. This object is accessed using the system.ioregistry property.
See I/O Kit Fundamentals for details about the IOKit registry.
Tasks
Accessing the IOKit Registry
Methods
childrenOf
Provides the children of the given IOKit object.
childrenOf(objectName)
Parameters
- objectName
String with the path of the desired IOKit object or an item of an IOKit object array.
Return Value
Array of IOKit object dictionaries.
Availability
- Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
See Also
fromPath
Provides a dictionary of the properties of a given IOKit object.
fromPath(filePath)
Parameters
- filePath
String with the path of the desired IOKit object.
Return Value
Dictionary of the properties of the IOKit object.
Availability
- Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
matchingClass
Provides the IOKit objects of a given class.
matchingClass(className, [servicePlane])
Parameters
- className
String with an IOKit class name.
- servicePlane
Optional. String with the service plane to search. When unspecified,
'IOServicePlane'is used.
Return Value
Array of IOKit object dictionaries.
Availability
- Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
matchingName
Provides the IOKit objects of the specified name.
matchingName(objectName, [servicePlane])
Parameters
- objectName
String with an IOKit object name.
- servicePlane
Optional. String with the service plane to search. When unspecified,
'IOServicePlane'is used.
Return Value
Array of IOKit object dictionaries.
Availability
- Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
parentsOf
Provides the parents of the given IOKit object.
childrenOf(objectName)
Parameters
- objectName
String with the path of the desired IOKit object or an item of an IOKit object array.
Return Value
Array of IOKit object dictionaries.
Availability
- Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.
See Also
Last updated: 2007-07-23
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