Problems parsing plist files
Problems parsing plist files
- Subject: Problems parsing plist files
- From: Peter Schols <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:20:42 +0100
Hi,
I'm experiencing a very strange problem. The following code
initializes an NSDictionary with a .plist file on my web server. This
code used to work just fine over the past 3 years (and it sill worked
a few weeks ago) but now it does not work anymore:
NSString *traceList = @"http://www.orbicule.com/UCservices/trace.plist";;
NSURL *traceURL = [NSURL URLWithString:traceList];
NSDictionary *traceDictionary = [NSDictionary
dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:traceURL];
NSLog(@"Trace dbase: %@", traceDictionary);
The traceDictionary is null and the run log shows the following message:
2005-11-07 13:03:45.932 uc[850] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is
not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Users/mac/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be
corrected in the plist.
2005-11-07 13:03:46.006 uc[850] Trace dbase: (null)
Since the code looks fine to me and since it used to work just fine
about two weeks ago, I'm clueless about what could be going wrong here.
When I replace the second line with the following line of code, it
does work:
NSURL *traceURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/Users/mac/Sites/Orbicule/
UCServices/trace.plist"];
So it seems like the NSDictionary can be initialised using a local
file but not using a file on my web server. Moreover, other code in
my app that does similar things (i.e. initialising dictionaries with
plist files) gives similar error messages, even when the plist file
is local.
I have searched the archives and I found some references to
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData but they don't seem to apply here. I
have played with different encodings and I have used the plutil tool
to no avail.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Peter
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