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

Posted by Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross
2,545 Points

How do i know what the contents of the plist is?

they asked me:

Given a resource named “CrazyInformation.plist” located in the main application directory, first retrieve the path to this resource and assign the string to a constant named plistPath. Once you have the plistPath, create an instance of NSDictionary containing the contents of the plist.

But how do i know what the contents inside of this made up plist is

plist.swift 
import Foundation

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

}

1 Answer

Victor Wang
Victor Wang
4,893 Points
Victor Wang
Victor Wang
4,893 Points

You don't need to know the content of the dictionary here, just pass in the directory of the file to the initialiser method of NSDictionary. 

import Foundation

if let plistPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("CrazyInformation", ofType: "plist") {
  let dictionary = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: plistPath) as? [String: AnyObject]

}