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James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 PointsWhy is my swift dictionary throwing an exception?
I have a simple swift dictionary. var myDictionary: [Int: Int] = [1:0, 2:0, 3:0] As a user progresses through the app the dictionary is updated like this: myDictionary[1] = 1 or myDictionary[3] = 2 This correctly results in: myDictionary = [1:1, 2:0, 3:2] When my user gets to a certain point the dictionary items are set back to an int of "0" like this: myDictionary[1] = 0 myDictionary[2] = 0 myDictionary[3] = 0
When the user starts working through the app again the app crashes when I: myDictionary[1] = 1 or any other change to the dictionary.
3 Answers
Jayden Spring
8,625 PointsHi James,
Rather than set each value to 0, reset try reseting the dictionary using myDictionary = [:]
This will reset the dictionary to a blank one as if you had initialised it using var myDictionary = Int : Int
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 PointsLet me try that. Thanks Jayden. If it works I'll let you know.
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 PointsStill getting a problem. Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS(code=1, address=0x20) Still pops up and it crashes where the item in the dictionary is changed. The program works great until the dictionary is cleared and all the numbers are changed to 0. The dictionary starts empty. Here is the code: var userProgressDictionary: [Int: Int] = Int: Int In the viewDidLoad section it check for a file. If the file is there, then: userProgressDictionary = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithFile(dataFilePathDictionary!) as [Int: Int] is called to load the object with the contents of the file. If the user stops at anytime the progress is archived in the prepareForSeque part of the code.
If there isn't a file at the dataFilePath my code calls: userProgressDictionary = [ 1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 0, 4: 0, 5: 0, 6: 0, 7: 0, 8: 0, 9: 0, 10: 0, 11: 0, 12: 0, 13: 0, 14: 0, 15: 0, 16: 0]
All this works beautifully. When all the dictionary items reach the int 3 the quiz is done and the user can reset the quiz. However I try to reset the dictionary it fails and crashes.