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

Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points
Posted by Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points

Question not accepting correct answer

So, I'm trying to safely instantiate a dictionary from a plist as per the question, but it's not accepting my answer. I've also tried just using bangs to force unwrap like this:

```if let plistPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("CrazyInformation", ofType: "plist")! let crazyDict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: plistPath)!

I've used the code just fine in an xcode project - am I missing something here?

```plist.swift
import Foundation

// Add your code below
if let plistPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("CrazyInformation", ofType: "plist"),
let crazyDict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: plistPath) {

}
Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points
Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points

To add context, this is the first code challenge in the "Build a weather app with Swift" course. I thought the question would be included in this post automatically.

2 Answers

Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points
Owen Hughes
Owen Hughes
10,188 Points

Got it

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

Very ambiguously phrased question. Especially considering in the previous video, a similar problem was solved differently.

Ernie Ayon
Ernie Ayon
3,441 Points

Thanks! Yeah, I was a little confused as to why it wouldn't work. Missing the if and {}

Matthew Davies
Matthew Davies
14,579 Points
Matthew Davies
Matthew Davies
14,579 Points

Unfortunately there are many ways to solve this and they wanted to see a specific way. The question needs to be more specific. Anyways your response helped me get past this code challenge so, thank you good sir!