Question

This is a continuation question I had from a post yesterday: Initializing NSMutableDictionary

(It’s probably a stupid question, but I don’t see what I’m doing wrong.)

I liked the idea of just having “All” listed in my TableView that pops up when the filter button is pressed in order to indicate no filter applied. I get my data from my model class sorted correctly into an NSMutableArray like so:

 NSArray *anArray = [dmgr.CategoryDictionary allKeys];
    self.CategoriesArray = [anArray sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)];
    [self.CategoriesArray insertObject:@"All" atIndex:0]; // line causes crash

But I want to add the “All” option to the CategoriesArray to show in the UITableView. When I try to run it, it crashes at that line because of

NSArrayI insertObject:atIndex:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x59baba0
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSArrayI insertObject:atIndex:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x59baba0'

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

sortedArrayUsingSelector: returns an immutable array which is why you can’t add to it. Do this to get a mutable copy.

self.CategoriesArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[anArray sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)]];