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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Adapting Data for Display Formatting Dates with NSDateFormatter

Dwight Davis
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Dwight Davis
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Posted by Dwight Davis
Dwight Davis
Courses Plus Student 9,120 Points

I need a bit of help with a NSNull error :-) (SOLVED ALREADY)

Solved :-) The problem was that I had blogPost.date = [bpDictionary objectForKey:@"thumbnail"]; instead of blogPost.date = [bpDictionary objectForKey:@"date"];

I am having a NSNull error that I have no idea where is coming from, since I followed the tutorial. Thank you so much for your help :-)

I am getting this error:

2014-05-22 15:07:01.623 BlogReader[3320:60b] __NSCFString 2014-05-22 15:07:01.703 BlogReader[3320:60b] __NSCFString 2014-05-22 15:07:01.794 BlogReader[3320:60b] -[NSNull length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x193a068 (lldb)

In this line:

NSDate *tempDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:self.date];

Which is in this method:

  • (NSString *) formattedDate{

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]; NSDate *tempDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:self.date];

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EE MMM,dd"]; return [dateFormatter stringFromDate:tempDate];

}