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iOS Build a Playlist Browser with Swift Building the Master and Detail Views Displaying Playlist Information

Hints to get description to display?

I am unable to get the playlist description to display. I will post my code, but I cannot find the problem. Everything is compiling. I downloaded the project from the downloads for this video and compared everything that I can find and everything seems to be the same, except that I the description is not displaying. Any ideas what might be wrong?

//  PlaylistDetailViewController.swift
//  Algorythm
//
//  Created by James Plauche on 8/17/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Tanner Plauché. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit

class PlaylistDetailViewController: UIViewController {


    var playlist = Playlist?()

    @IBOutlet weak var playlistCoverImage: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet weak var playlistTitle: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var playlistDescription: UILabel!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        if playlist != nil {
            playlistCoverImage.image = playlist!.largeIcon
            playlistCoverImage.backgroundColor = playlist!.backgroundColor
            playlistTitle.text = playlist!.title
            playlistDescription.text = playlist!.description
        }

     func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }


    /*
    // MARK: - Navigation

    // In a storyboard-based application, you will often want to do a little preparation before navigation
    override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
        // Get the new view controller using segue.destinationViewController.
        // Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
    }
    */

}
}

2 Answers

Ok. Ok. Ok. This happens every time. I try to solve a problem myself, and then I don't figure it out until AFTER I think I have exhausted myself looking for the solution.

The problem was in my struct initializer. I used the key "dictionary" instead of "description". I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that.

I actually did the exact same thing... very strange

Nicholas Westmoreland
Nicholas Westmoreland
5,937 Points

I'm battling to get description to display too. Unfortunately no typo that I can find yet. Description displays fine in the playlistTitle label, but not in the playlistDescription label. playlistDescription.text = "trying to debug" displays fine too. ....???????

edit: solution found in typo in Playlist.swift file description = playListDictionary["typo was here"] as! String!