Question

I got a very strange bug when I’m trying to read my plist.
My plist looks like :

Root (Array)
            Item 0 (Dictionary)
                              title (String)

I want to display title in the log, so I did the code bellow:

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *basePath = ([paths count] > 0) ? [paths objectAtIndex:0] : nil;
NSString *path = [basePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"data.plist"];
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path] mutableCopy];

NSLog(@"%@", [dict objectForKey:@"title"]);

NSLog(@"Path to plist: %@", path);

With this code, NSLog(@"%@", [dict objectForKey:@"title"]); is equal to “(null)“…

My plist is in my app’s documents folder, and the log of path return the good path to my plist.

Help me please 🙂

Answer 1

The root of your plist is an array but you read it into a dictionary, thats won’t work.

You should:

• read the plist into an array
• get item 0 (objectAtIndex:0) -> this is a dictionary
• on this dictionary you can perform objectForKey …