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Sarat Patel
Sarat Patel

Reputation: 856

iOS - Pinterest Sharing Description Text not working if I send "&" in description text

I had implemented pinterest sharing code in my app as well. Its working fine. But problem arrives at one scenario see follow

Correct working:

[pinterest createPinWithImageURL:[NSURL URLWithString:imageUrl]
    sourceURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",shareUrl]] 
    description:@"My Description"];

Then it will share Pinterest Description same My Description as per my expectation.

But when I send Description Test like :

[pinterest createPinWithImageURL:[NSURL URLWithString:imageUrl]
    sourceURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",shareUrl]] 
    description:@"My Details & Description"];

Then it will share Pinterest Description like My Details. My expected text here is My Details & Description this is trunks my string after & symbol.

What actually wrong happening with me please look at here.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (1)

JRG-Developer
JRG-Developer

Reputation: 12663

AFAIK, Pinterest's Pin It SDK isn't open source, so it's difficult to find out what's really going on.

I would guess, however, that this method is creating a GET request under-the-hood that's incorrectly URL encoding the description parameter (perhaps they're using stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding or some other naive method).

I'd recommend contacting the Pinterest SDK developers/maintainers to look into this.

As a quick fix, you might try URL encoding the & yourself. For example, you might try replacing & with %26, e.g.

NSString *description = // ...whatever it should be set to...
description = [description stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"&" withString:@"%26"];

However, this might actually lead to other problems as the Pinterest SDK is likely doing some sort of URL encoding and would likely encode the % symbol.

Another naive approach may simply be to replace & with the word and, such as

NSString *description = // ...whatever it should be set to...
description = [description stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"&" withString:@"and"];

Again, it's hacky, but it's a workaround for a bug that's likely in the underlying SDK.

Upvotes: 2

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