How do I decode HTML entities in swift 2.0?

Question

I found this extension on Stackoverflow. However, there was an error. How do I fix this error?

Cannot invoke initializer for type 'NSAttributedString' with an argument list of type '(data: NSData, options: [String : AnyObject], documentAttributes: NilLiteralConvertible, error: NilLiteralConvertible)'

Error is in "let attributedString".

extension String {
    init(htmlEncodedString: String) {
        let encodedData = htmlEncodedString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
        let attributedOptions : [String: AnyObject] = [
            NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
            NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: NSUTF8StringEncoding
        ]
        let attributedString = NSAttributedString(data: encodedData, options: attributedOptions, documentAttributes: nil, error: nil)! //ERROR HERE!
        self.init(attributedString.string)
    }
}

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '15 at 12:37

Looking at the docs I believe you have the correct method, but note that Swift 2 has error handling, so you would need to do:

extension String {
    init(htmlEncodedString: String) {
        do {
            let encodedData = htmlEncodedString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
            let attributedOptions : [String: AnyObject] = [
                NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
                NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: NSUTF8StringEncoding
            ]
            let attributedString = try NSAttributedString(data: encodedData, options: attributedOptions, documentAttributes: nil)
            self.init(attributedString.string)
        } catch {
            fatalError("Unhandled error: \(error)")
        }
    }
}

I've tested that in a playground and it happily compiles.

How do I decode HTML entities in swift 2.0?

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