Question

I’m making a small iOS application which requests a JSON file with ASIHTTPRequest and I want it to be parsed by JSONKit. I’m using the following code:

- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
        // yada yada

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost/file.json"]; // the file is a valid Json
    ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [request setDelegate:self];
    [request setTimeOutSeconds:20]; // Response takes too long on local machine
    [request startAsynchronous];
}

- (void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request {
    responseString = [request responseString]; // request type: ASIREQUEST, responseString is declared as NSString
    NSLog(@"%@ \n", [responseString class]); // NSCFString
        NSDictionary *deserializedData = [responseString objectFromJSONString];
}

However, I’m seeing the following exception when the application runs:

[7646:207] -[NSCFString objectFromJSONString]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xdba0000
[7646:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-`[NSCFString objectFromJSONString]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xdba0000'`

What could be causing this exception? Why is it showing that I’m using an NSCFString here, even though I’m specifying an NSString?

Answer 1

You’ve included JSONKit.h, but you forgot to include JSONKit.m in the project. It compiles fine, but the implementation isn’t there at runtime.