Question

This is the Database field values.

Below is the code which I am applying to fetch data from sqlite database

-(void)readDataFromRestaurantTable
{
    [self openDataBase];

    const char *dbpath = [databasePath UTF8String];

    if (sqlite3_open(dbpath, & database) == SQLITE_OK)
    {
        sqlite3_stmt  *statement = NULL;

        NSString *querySQL = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"SELECT * FROM RestaurantDB"];
        const char *query_stmt = [querySQL UTF8String];

        if (sqlite3_prepare_v2(database, query_stmt, -1, &statement, NULL) == SQLITE_OK) {

            while (sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW)
            {
                strRestaurantName = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 1)];
                strRestaurantAddress = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 2)];
                strRestaurantPhone = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 3)];
                strRestaurantLatitude = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 4)];
                strRestaurantLongitude = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 5)];

                NSLog(@"strRestaurantName :--> %@",strRestaurantName);
            }
        }
        sqlite3_finalize(statement);
    }
    sqlite3_close(database);
}

In the previous block of code application is not going inside the

if (sqlite3_prepare_v2(database, query_stmt, -1, &statement, NULL) == SQLITE_OK)
{

}

Here it is getting statement = 0x00000000 & I think because of this reason only it is not going into the if block.

Error at the time of crash

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSPlaceholderString initWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString'
First throw call stack:
(0x18dc012 0x12a1e7e 0x18dbdeb 0xcbdce6 0x78e4 0x7bdf 0x2ca817 0x2ca882 0x2ebed9 0x2ebd14 0x2ea1ea 0x2ea06c 0x2ebc57 0x12b5705 0x1ec920 0x1ec8b8 0x40f0b4 0x12b5705 0x1ec920 0x1ec8b8 0x2ad671 0x2adbcf 0x2ad6a6 0x412bb9 0x12b5705 0x1ec920 0x1ec8b8 0x2ad671 0x2adbcf 0x2acd38 0x21c33f 0x21c552 0x1fa3aa 0x1ebcf8 0x1da5df9 0x185ff3f 0x185f96f 0x1882734 0x1881f44 0x1881e1b 0x1da47e3 0x1da4668 0x1e965c 0x2712 0x2645 0x1)
libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception

Please guide me where is the actual problem lies.

Answer 1

This is being caused by trying to create a NSString object with a NULL string. It is on one of these lines:

[[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, ...)];

So, before you create a NSString with the results of the sql statement you need to check for NULL like this:

char *tmp = sqlite3_column_text(statement, 1);
if (tmp == NULL)
    strRestaurantName = nil;
else
    strRestaurantName = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:tmp];