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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift Simple Data Structures Loading Files From A Directory

William Choi
William Choi
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Posted by William Choi
William Choi
6,121 Points

Having trouble with the challenge

Dont know what to do/ what code I should add/take away

plist.swift 
import Foundation

// Add your code below
let plistPath = "CrazyInformation.plist".plist

let NSDictionary = plistPath

1 Answer

Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan
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You access the plist path through the NSBundle method below. Also It's probably best to surround it in an 'if let' to ensure the plist inst nil and we don't crash when trying to access it.

if let plistPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("CrazyInformation", ofType: "plist") {

}

Then to assign the contents of the file path to an NSDictionary you do: (Inside the 'if let' statement)

  let dictionary = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: plistPath)

Looking at the NSBundle and NSDictionary sections of the docs helped me figure this out - so take a look there for more info.

Hope that helped. Good luck.

William Choi
William Choi
6,121 Points
William Choi
William Choi
6,121 Points

This helped heaps, thanks alot mate.