GRNPFObject

This library has been created by www.guarana.io

This is a library to solve all the crashes due to Parse's (arguably) poor handling of nils. It wraps PFObject & co. to always check for nil, before passing them over to Parse.

Installation

Cocoapods

pod 'GRNPFObject', '~> 0.0.3'

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Manual

Drag the folder GRNPFObject into your project.

Usage

PFQuery cannot do a comparison query for type: (null)

Problem

Consider, for example, the following query:

PFQuery *query = [PFComment query];
[query whereKey:@"post" equalTo:post];
[query findInBackground];

If post == nil, the call to findInBackground would crash, due to a NSInvalidArgumentException.

Solution

When subclassing your PFObject, sublass GRNPFObject instead.

@interface PFComment : GRNPFObject <PFSubclassing>

Don't forget to import the headers.

If you don't like subclassing PFObject (I hear you, my friend), then this library will work as long as you use PFSafeQuery:

PFQuery *query = [PFSafeQuery queryWithClassName:@"Comment"];

NSInvalidArgumentException: Can't use nil for keys or values on PFObject. Use NSNull for values.

Problem

You will get this crash when you are trying to insert a nil into one of your PFObject. This can happen, for example, when you are expecting a facebook_id, but you don't get one.

Solution

Same solution as before: subclass GRNPFObject. Your nil will auto-magically be converted into [NSNull null]. This will show up as undefined in your Parse table.