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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Adapting Data for Display Handling Malformed Data

Tollman Owens
Tollman Owens
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Posted by Tollman Owens
Tollman Owens
3,791 Points

Xcode 6.2 throwing null exception in BlogPost instance method thumbnailURL instead of in TableViewController

Looks like Xcode is doing a better job catching errors earlier in the execution.

I dumped the if else statement in the tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath

and added within BlogPost.m

-(NSURL *) thumbnailURL
{
  NSURL *urlForThumbnail;

  if ([_thumbnail isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]) {
    // local resource
    urlForThumbnail = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"treehouse" withExtension:@"png"];

  }else{
      // remote resource
      urlForThumbnail = [NSURL URLWithString:_thumbnail];
  }

  return urlForThumbnail;
}

It now runs as intended. Thoughts?