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Asked: 2026-06-16T06:12:16+00:00

I found the answer after I set the bounty. If somebody has some useful

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I found the answer after I set the bounty. If somebody has some useful comments on my approach (I don’t know if it is the ‘right’ solution) he/she can have the bounty. If you’re going to downvote my question, please leve a comment so I can improve future questions.

I’m currently learning Objective-C with the book Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X and it introduces archiving in chapter 10. I (AFAIK) did exactly what the author wants me to do, but when opening a file and thus unarchiving it the app crashes on the line:

array = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data];

It says GDB received signal: EXC_BAD_ACCESS. I have only encountered this when accessing an array slot that is out of bounds, and I believe I am not doing that. My best guess is that something behind the Cocoa scenes goes wrong, indirectly caused by me. What could this be?
As I said I am currently learning Objective-C (but I know Java), so don’t expect me to know every obscure language feature.

The file opening method (MyDocument.m):

- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError {
    NSMutableArray *array = nil;
    NSLog(@"data is %@", data);

    @try {
        array = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data]; // line of the EXC_BAD_ACCESS
    }
    @catch (NSException * e) {
        if (outError) {
            NSDictionary *d = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"The data is corrupted." forKey:NSLocalizedFailureReasonErrorKey];
            *outError = [NSError errorWithDomain:NSOSStatusErrorDomain code:unimpErr userInfo:d];
        }
        return NO;
    }
    [self setEmployees:array];
    return YES;
}

The file saving method (still MyDocument.m):

- (NSData *)dataOfType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError {
    [[tv window] endEditingFor:nil]; // tv is my IBOutlet to an NSTableView

    return [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:employees];
}

This is the stack trace (Thanks, H2CO3):

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fff858da104 in objc_msgSend_vtable13 ()
#1  0x00007fff858dcff5 in objc_getProperty ()
#2  0x00000001000022cf in -[Person name] (self=0x1001d4480, _cmd=0x7fff89d1a790) at /Users/mauritsfriedrichkoelmans/Desktop/RaiseMan1/Person.m:14
#3  0x00007fff86e79674 in -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] ()
#4  0x00007fff86e7cfb8 in -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] ()
#5  0x00007fff897e10df in -[NSBinder valueForBinding:atIndex:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] ()
#6  0x00007fff89682aa2 in -[NSValueBinder _adjustObject:mode:observedController:observedKeyPath:context:editableState:adjustState:] ()
#7  0x00007fff897e0e75 in -[NSValueBinder updateTableColumnDataCell:forDisplayAtIndex:] ()
#8  0x00007fff897e0d83 in -[NSTextValueBinder updateTableColumnDataCell:forDisplayAtIndex:] ()
#9  0x00007fff897e0d30 in -[_NSBindingAdaptor tableColumn:willDisplayCell:row:] ()
#10 0x00007fff896cab00 in -[NSTableView preparedCellAtColumn:row:] ()
#11 0x00007fff896ca306 in -[NSTableView _dirtyVisibleCellsForKeyStateChange] ()
#12 0x00007fff896c9e96 in -[NSTableView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#13 0x00007fff88ba0d3e in CFArrayApplyFunction ()
#14 0x00007fff89611478 in -[NSView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#15 0x00007fff88ba0d3e in CFArrayApplyFunction ()
#16 0x00007fff89611478 in -[NSView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#17 0x00007fff88ba0d3e in CFArrayApplyFunction ()
#18 0x00007fff89611478 in -[NSView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#19 0x00007fff88ba0d3e in CFArrayApplyFunction ()
#20 0x00007fff89611478 in -[NSView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#21 0x00007fff896c991f in -[NSFrameView _windowChangedKeyState] ()
#22 0x00007fff89611171 in -[NSWindow _setFrameNeedsDisplay:] ()
#23 0x00007fff8960f1d8 in -[NSWindow _makeKeyRegardlessOfVisibility] ()
#24 0x00007fff8960f13e in -[NSWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:] ()
#25 0x00007fff89814401 in -[NSWindowController showWindow:] ()
#26 0x00007fff897e5c5c in -[NSDocument showWindows] ()
#27 0x00007fff899539c1 in -[NSDocumentController openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] ()
#28 0x00007fff89953072 in -[NSDocumentController _openDocumentsWithContentsOfURLs:display:presentErrors:] ()
#29 0x00007fff8976eeda in -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] ()
#30 0x00007fff8979346a in -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] ()
#31 0x00007fff897931d4 in -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] ()
#32 0x00007fff89778e45 in -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] ()
#33 0x00007fff89777bed in -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] ()
#34 0x00007fff896486b9 in -[NSApplication sendEvent:] ()
#35 0x00007fff895df6de in -[NSApplication run] ()
#36 0x00007fff895d83b0 in NSApplicationMain ()
#37 0x0000000100001e9b in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff5fbff660) at /Users/mauritsfriedrichkoelmans/Desktop/RaiseMan1/main.m:13
(gdb)

The data object is not nil, NSLog()ed it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I solved it myself!

    In the book, the initWithCoder: method of the Person class (the array I try to unarchive is filled with instances of that class) looks like this:

    - (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    [super init];
    name = [coder decodeObjectForKey:@"name"];
    expectedRaise = [coder decodeFloatForKey:@"expectedRaise"];
    return self;
}

    But it had to be:

    - (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    [super init];
    self.name = [coder decodeObjectForKey:@"name"];
    self.expectedRaise = [coder decodeFloatForKey:@"expectedRaise"];
    return self;
}
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