Cannot decode object of class

Question

I am trying to send a \"Class\" to my Watchkit extension but I get this error.

* Terminating app due to uncaught exception \'NSInvalidUna

Answer 1

I had a similar situation where my app used my Core framework in which I kept all model classes. E.g. I stored and retrieved UserProfile object using NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver, when I decided to move all my classes to MyApp NSKeyedUnarchiver started throwing errors because the stored objects were like Core.UserProfile and not MyApp.UserProfile as expected by the unarchiver. How I solved it was to create a subclass of NSKeyedUnarchiver and override classforClassName function:

class SKKeyedUnarchiver: NSKeyedUnarchiver {
    override open func `class`(forClassName codedName: String) -> Swift.AnyClass? {
        let lagacyModuleString = "Core."
        if let range = codedName.range(of: lagacyModuleString), range.lowerBound.encodedOffset == 0  {
            return NSClassFromString(codedName.replacingOccurrences(of: lagacyModuleString, with: ""))
        }
        return NSClassFromString(codedName)
    }
}

Then added @objc(name) to classes which needed to be archived, as suggested in one of the answers here.

And call it like this:

if let unarchivedObject = SKKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(withFile: UserProfileServiceImplementation.archiveURL.path) as? UserProfile {
    currentUserProfile = unarchivedObject
}

It worked very well.

The reason why the solution NSKeyedUnarchiver.setClass(YourClassName.self, forClassName: "YourClassName") was not for me because it doesn't work for nested objects such as when UserProfile has a var address: Address. Unarchiver will succeed with the UserProfile but will fail when it goes a level deeper to Address.

And the reason why the @objc(name) solution alone didn't do it for me was because I didn't move from OBJ-C to Swift, so the issue was not UserProfile -> MyApp.UserProfile but instead Core.UserProfile -> MyApp.UserProfile.