NSXMLParser app terminating "unrecognized selector sent to instance"

Question

Hi guys I'm looking for a way to parse my XML to a few numbers of labels, the "XMLReader" class is where my XML to Dictionary converter is and which works fine for all my other views. and "getValue" is a method to remove the whitespaces and tabs. Now when i try to feed my labels with data i get this exception: NSArray unrecognized selector sent to instance:0x....

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSDate* date = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"HHddMMyyyy"];
NSString* date_str = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NSString *requestUrl = [NSString 
stringWithFormat:@"xyz",date_str];
NSURL *staturl= [NSURL URLWithString:requestUrl];
NSURLRequest *statrequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:staturl];
NSURLResponse *statresponse;
NSError *staterror;
NSData * statdata = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:statrequest 
returningResponse:&statresponse error:&staterror];
if (staterror) {
    NSLog(@"URL Error");
}
NSString *statsdataAsString = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:statdata 
encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSDictionary *statsdictionary = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:statsdataAsString 
error:&staterror];

_stCreditlabel.text =[XMLReader getValue:[[[[statsdictionary 
objectForKey:@"Statistics"]objectForKey:@"Statistics"]objectForKey:@"Statistic"]objectForKey:@"Name"]];

XML:

<Statistics xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="xyz">
   <Statistics>
    <Statistic>
     <Name>heute</Name>
    <Statistic>
      <Name></Name>
      <Value></Value>
    </Statistic>
    <Statistic>
     <Name></Name>
     <Value>518</Value>
    </Statistic>
   </Statistic>
  <Statistic>
   <Name>Allgemein</Name>
   <Statistic>
     <Name>Online</Name>
     <Value>2458</Value>
   </Statistic>
   <Statistic>
     <Name>Lager</Name>
     <Value>444</Value>
   </Statistic>     
  </Statistic>
 </Statistics>
</Statistics>

Log:

2014-04-15 11:04:22.282 MConsole[763:60b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught 
exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSArrayM objectForKey:]: 
unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x972ea70'
po 0x972ea70
<__NSArrayM 0x972ea70>(
{
Name =     {
    text = "\n  \n    \n      heute";
};
Statistic =     (
            {
        Name =             {
            text = "\n      \n       ";
        };
        Value =             {
            text = "\n        9";
        };
        text = "\n      ";
    },
            {
        Name =             {
            text = "\n      \n        ";
        };
        Value =             {
            text = "\n        518";
        };
        text = "\n      ";
    }
);
text = "\n    ";
},
{
Name =     {
    text = "\n    \n      Allgemein";
};
Statistic =     (
            {
        Name =             {
            text = "\n      \n        Online";
        };
        Value =             {
            text = "\n        2458";
        };
        text = "\n      ";
    },
            {
        Name =             {
            text = "\n      \n        Lager";
        };
        Value =             {
            text = "\n        444";
        };
        text = "\n      ";
    },

Answer 1

The line NSDictionary *statsdictionary = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:statsdataAsString error:&staterror]; is returning an NSArray, and not a NSDictionary, so the NSXMLParser crashes since an NSArray doesn't know any methods named object for key.

EDIT:

In your case, the last two lines needs to be changed to something like this (NB: UNTESTED!):

NSArray *statsArray = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:statsdataAsString 
error:&staterror];

_stCreditlabel.text = [[statsArray[0] valueForKey:@"Name"] valueForKey:@"text];

If you want to access more of the statistic elements inside the statistics array, you can loop them with:

for (NSDictionary *statsObject in statsArray){

}

Also, I'd recommend this tutorial on how to parse Xml in iOS: http://www.raywenderlich.com/725/xml-tutorial-for-ios-how-to-read-and-write-xml-documents-with-gdataxml.