How to get the arity of a method?

Question

In Javascript, for example, you can get the arity (the number of arguments a function is supposed to take) by simply func.length. How can I get this information for a method in Objective-C?

Answer 1

NSMethodSignature is awesome for all kind of reflection information.

SEL selector = @selector(foo:);
NSMethodSignature *sig = [someObj methodSignatureForSelector:selector]
int argCount = [sig numberOfArguments];

Answer 2

From The Objective-C Runtime Reference

method_getNumberOfArguments

Returns the number of arguments accepted by a method.

unsigned method_getNumberOfArguments(Method method) Parameters method A pointer to a Method data structure. Pass the method in question. Return Value An integer containing the number of arguments accepted by the given method.