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Leonardo Rangel
Leonardo Rangel

Reputation: 63

Convert array of NSData to array of UIImage

Here is the thing. At a point in my app, I want to show on a CollectionView the photos stored in Core Data (yes, I use External Storage). To get only the photos in my Entity I do the following:

NSManagedObjectContext *managedObjectContext = [self managedObjectContext];
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] initWithEntityName:@"SmallThing"];
[fetchRequest setResultType:NSDictionaryResultType];
[fetchRequest setPropertiesToFetch:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"smallphoto", nil]];
self.photos = [[managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:nil]mutableCopy];

That seemed to work fine, it returns the data for the photos and store it on the array. Then I created a method to convert it to UIImage so I could store on another array as following:

- (NSMutableArray *)convertDataToImage:(UIImage *)image {
for (NSData *data in self.photos) {
    image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
    [self.images addObject:image];
}
return self.images;
}

When I get to the line image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data it crashes and I get the following error:

[16697:2367280] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSKnownKeysDictionary1 length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fae0c117cc0'

I don't know what else I can do. Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 624

Answers (1)

Carl Veazey
Carl Veazey

Reputation: 18363

You are explicitly telling the fetch request to return dictionaries with the line:

[fetchRequest setResultType:NSDictionaryResultType];

Which means the array returned by executeFetchRequest... contains NSDictionary objects, with key-value pairs corresponding to the properties you specified.

Your code in convertDataToImage should be along the lines of:

for (NSDictionary *dictionary in self.photos) {
    NSData *data = dictionary[@"smallphoto"];
    ...
}

If you specified a different property to fetch other than smallphoto you would of course substitute that string there as appropriate.

Upvotes: 1

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