Decoding HTML in Swift causes BAD_ACCESS on iOS device

Question

Following the great example of How do I decode HTML entities in swift? I have managed to decode a HTML entity. However, running my app in iOS simulator causes no errors while testing it on a real device do.

I'm getting the following error:

Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0xc)

On this line:

let attributedString = NSAttributedString(data: encodedData, options: attributedOptions, documentAttributes: nil, error: nil)!

How do you go about solving this?

Answer 1

Probably you are not running the code in the main thread. I am not sure how it is working in the simulator. Anyway try putting that code in a main thread block like dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { let attributedString = NSAttributedString(data: encodedData, options: attributedOptions, documentAttributes: nil, error: nil) let decodedString = attributedString?.string })

It should work properly.