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I'm migrating my code to swift 3 and I'm having a hard time with this extension that was working on the previous swift version.
extension Data {
var attributedString: NSAttributedString? {
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: self, options:[NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: String.Encoding.utf8], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
return nil
}
}
Now when I try to call this piece of code I get an exception error like this
error: warning: couldn't get required object pointer (substituting NULL): Couldn't load 'self' because its value couldn't be evaluated
That's how I call the method from my view controller
let htmlCode = "<html><head><style type=\"text/css\">@font-face {font-family: Avenir-Roman}body {font-family: Avenir-Roman;font-size:15;margin: 0;padding: 0}</style></head><body bgcolor=\"#FBFBFB\">" + htmlBodyCode + "</body>"
newsDescription.attributedText = htmlCode.utf8Data?.attributedString
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An NSAttributedString object manages character strings and associated sets of attributes (for example, font and kerning) that apply to individual characters or ranges of characters in the string. An association of characters and their attributes is called an attributed string.
let normalFont = UIFont(name: "Dosis-Medium", size: 18) let boldSearchFont = UIFont(name: "Dosis-Bold", size: 18) self. UILabel. attributedText = addBoldText("Check again in 30 days to find more friends", boldPartsOfString: ["Check", "30 days", "find", "friends"], font: normalFont!, boldFont: boldSearchFont!)
Try this:
extension Data {
var attributedString: NSAttributedString? {
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: self, options:[NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
return nil
}
}
As described in the official reference, the value for key NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute needs to be an NSNumber.
NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute
The value of this attribute is an
NSNumberobject containing integer specifyingNSStringEncodingfor the file;
In older Swifts, NSStringEncoding constants are imported as UInts, so they are automatically bridged to NSNumber when converted to AnyObject, as contained in NSDictionary.
But now, Swift introduced a new enum type String.Encoding which is not originated as an Objective-C enum. And unfortunately, now any Swift types can be contained in an NSDictionary with intermediate hidden reference type _SwiftValue, which definitely is NOT an NSNumber.
So, you need to pass something which can be bridged to NSNumber as the value for key NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute. In your case, rawValue would work.
In my opinion, this should be improved, and better send a bug report to Apple or swift.org.
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In case anyone needs assistance in Swift 5.2+ :
extension Data {
var attributedString: NSAttributedString? {
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: self, options: [ NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html, NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue ], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
return nil
}
}
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