iOS7 only returns 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString containsString:]:

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I am working with a book application where the user will be able to tap on a word and then a part of an audio file will the played for them containing that word and the word will be highlighted. Unfortunately I am getting some errors now that I have tried to optimize the code from being only iOS8 to also support iOS7.

This is the error I get:

2015-06-10 10:42:50.455 Chi Shin får en hund[63976:607] selected :sammen -- <_UITextKitTextPosition: 0x7862b8b0> (28B)
2015-06-10 10:42:50.456 Chi Shin får en hund[63976:607] -[__NSCFString containsString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x78f585a0
2015-06-10 10:42:50.458 Chi Shin får en hund[63976:607] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString containsString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x78f585a0'
*** First throw call stack:
(
    0   CoreFoundation                      0x023371e4 __exceptionPreprocess + 180
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x020b68e5 objc_exception_throw + 44
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x023d4243 -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 275
    3   CoreFoundation                      0x0232750b ___forwarding___ + 1019
    4   CoreFoundation                      0x023270ee _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 14
    5   Chi Shin faÃär en hund              0x000ab695 -[DataViewController pageWordTapped:] + 805
    6   UIKit                               0x015384f4 _UIGestureRecognizerSendActions + 230
    7   UIKit                               0x01537168 -[UIGestureRecognizer _updateGestureWithEvent:buttonEvent:] + 383
    8   UIKit                               0x01538bdd -[UIGestureRecognizer _delayedUpdateGesture] + 60
    9   UIKit                               0x0153c13d ___UIGestureRecognizerUpdate_block_invoke + 57
    10  UIKit                               0x0153c0be _UIGestureRecognizerRemoveObjectsFromArrayAndApplyBlocks + 317
    11  UIKit                               0x015327ac _UIGestureRecognizerUpdate + 199
    12  UIKit                               0x011dda5a -[UIWindow _sendGesturesForEvent:] + 1291
    13  UIKit                               0x011de971 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 1021
    14  UIKit                               0x011b05f2 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 242
    15  UIKit                               0x0119a353 _UIApplicationHandleEventQueue + 11455
    16  CoreFoundation                      0x022c077f __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
    17  CoreFoundation                      0x022c010b __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 235
    18  CoreFoundation                      0x022dd1ae __CFRunLoopRun + 910
    19  CoreFoundation                      0x022dc9d3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 467
    20  CoreFoundation                      0x022dc7eb CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
    21  GraphicsServices                    0x0380a5ee GSEventRunModal + 192
    22  GraphicsServices                    0x0380a42b GSEventRun + 104
    23  UIKit                               0x0119cf9b UIApplicationMain + 1225
    24  Chi Shin faÃär en hund              0x000dad2a main + 138
    25  libdyld.dylib                       0x030606d9 start + 1
)
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
(lldb)

The function is below and works perfectly in iOS8 and this is the way I am calling the method.

UITapGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(pageWordTapped:)];
    gestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
    [self.pageLabel addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];

And the function.

- (void) pageWordTapped:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)recognizer{

    UITextView *textView =  (UITextView *)recognizer.view;

    CGPoint location = [recognizer locationInView:textView];
//    NSLog(@"Tap Gesture Coordinates: %.2f %.2f -- %@", location.x, location.y,textView.text);

    CGPoint position = CGPointMake(location.x, location.y);

    //get location in text from textposition at point
    UITextPosition *tapPosition = [textView closestPositionToPoint:position];

    //fetch the word at this position (or nil, if not available)
    UITextRange *textRange = [textView.tokenizer rangeEnclosingPosition:tapPosition withGranularity:UITextGranularityWord inDirection:UITextLayoutDirectionRight];

    NSString *tappedSentence = [textView textInRange:textRange];
    NSLog(@"selected :%@ -- %@",tappedSentence,tapPosition);

    if (!togglePlayIsOn) {

        for (int i = 0; i < wordArray.count; i ++) {

            WordModel *wordModel = wordArray[i];

            if ((wordModel.word.length - tappedSentence.length) < 3 && [wordModel.word containsString:tappedSentence]) {

                double timeInterval = [wordModel.endTime doubleValue] - [wordModel.startTime doubleValue];
                NSTimeInterval intervalForTimer = timeInterval;

                NSLog(@"timeInterval :%@,   %@,   %f", wordModel.startTime, wordModel.endTime, intervalForTimer);

                [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.0
                                                 target:self
                                               selector:@selector(highlightWord:)
                                               userInfo:@{@"rangeLocation": wordModel.rangeLocation, @"rangeLength": wordModel.rangeLength}
                                                repeats:NO];

                [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:intervalForTimer
                                                 target:self
                                               selector:@selector(unHighlightEndOfText:)
                                               userInfo:@{@"wordLength": [NSNumber numberWithInt:1]}
                                                repeats:NO];

                [self playWord:[wordModel.startTime doubleValue] endTime:[wordModel.endTime doubleValue]];

                return;

            }

        }

    }

}

If I outcomment the if (!togglePlayIsOn) statement, then the app doesn't crash, so I believe that it is within that piece of code the errors occur.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:02

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The problem is that containsString: is an iOS8 API and thus crashing under iOS7. You could just replace

[wordModel.word containsString:tappedSentence]

with

[wordModel.word rangeOfString:tappedSentence].location != NSNotFound

answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:02

Alladinian

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Oh yeah.. this was definitely the simplest and easiest way to do it.. thanks – Corfitz. Jun 10 '15 at 09:24

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 10 '15 at 09:01

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The method to check [NSString containsString:] is only available on iOS8, to do that on iOS7 you need to:

NSString *string = @"foo";
if ([string rangeOfString:@"oo"].location == NSNotFound) {

} else {

}

edited Jun 10 '15 at 09:01

Michał Ciuba

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:01

EmilDo

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:05

Your code crashing because you used [wordModel.word containsString:tappedSentence] containsString is available in iOS 8 and later. If you want use both iOS 7 and iOS 8 + then please use below code -

Implement containsString yourself in a category using rangeOfString:

@implementation NSString (Contains)

- (BOOL)myContainsString:(NSString*)other {
  NSRange range = [self rangeOfString:other];
  return range.length != 0;
}

Hope this will help you.

iOS7 only returns 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString containsString:]:

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