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Dmitri Iourovitski
3,253 Pointsprotection against a Null Dictionary Object
I ran into a null dictionary object earlier today and it crashed my app. In order to protect against this, I've modified my setPhoto method to the following.
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(void)setPhoto:(NSDictionary *)photo { _photo = photo;
if ([photo isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]){ NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:_photo[@"images"][@"standard_resolution"][@"url"]]; [self downloadPhotoWithURL:url]; }else{ NSLog(@"Null Object"); } } The isKindOfClass checks to see if a dictionary object is being passed, since if a property is NULL it will cause an error reading [NSNULL objectForKey] sent to instance xxxxxxxxx invalid selector.
1 Answer
Sam Soffes
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat works. I generally do something like object == [NSNull null] instead—although yours is definitely safer. In the Photo Bombers app, you shouldn't be inserting null into your data anywhere though. I'd do checks where you're inserting to be sure you only insert good data.
For iOS apps, it's generally a good practice to optimize for reading over writing.