TWTRTimelineViewController crashes: "initWithCoder: unrecognized selector sent to instance"

[AlexR]

Based on the sample code provided here (Show Timelines), I have created a custom TWTRSearchViewController:

.h:

#import <TwitterKit/TwitterKit.h>
@interface TWTRSearchViewController : TWTRTimelineViewController
@end

.m:

#import "TWTRSearchViewController.h"
@interface TWTRSearchViewController ()
@end

@implementation TWTRSearchViewController
- (instancetype)init {
    TWTRAPIClient *APIClient = [[Twitter sharedInstance] APIClient];
    TWTRSearchTimelineDataSource *searchTimelineDataSource = [[TWTRSearchTimelineDataSource alloc] initWithSearchQuery:@"#twitterflock" APIClient:APIClient];
    return [super initWithDataSource:searchTimelineDataSource];
}

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}

After the app starts, it crashes right away with the error message: -[TWTRSearchViewController initWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7a88f1d0. The app crashes even before init or viewDidLoad is called.

What is wrong my code? Any idea on what I might have missed?

Thanks

[stevenhepting]

Are you setting up this app using Interface Builder?

Would you be willing to post a sample version of your app that exhibits this behavior?

[971nce]

Steven I am having the same problem as well, while using swift. I am also using storyboard to build my user interface. I followed the Twitter Kit SDK exactly and using this code:

import UIKit
import TwitterKit

class SearchTimelineViewController: TWTRTimelineViewController {
    convenience init() {
        let client = Twitter.sharedInstance().APIClient
        let dataSource = TWTRSearchTimelineDataSource(searchQuery: "#twitterflock", APIClient: client)
        
        self.init(dataSource: dataSource)
    }
    
    override required init(dataSource: TWTRTimelineDataSource) {
        super.init(dataSource: dataSource)
    }
    
    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}

[AlexR]

Hi Steven,

yes, I set up my app using Interface Builder. You can find a sample of my app here: Dropbox

Please run the app and it will crash with the error message: [TwitterSearchViewController initWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance xyz.

Everything has been set up as described in the Twitter API doc.

Thank you!

Alex

[stevenhepting]

Alex, your linked app is missing the TwitterSearchViewController.h and .m files. Maybe you forgot to add them?

I would suggest a workaround of creating your view controllers in code for now until we create a sample for using Interface Builder.

[AlexR]

Steve,
I might have forgotten to add the files to the project. You find the missing files here: Dropbox

Please let me know if you are able to reproduce the error.

Could you provide a sample on how to create a view controller in code instead of using a Storyboard please?

Thanks!

[FredWaltman1]

I’m getting the same error with swift. View controller created with scoreboard, Xcode 6.3

I also had a problem with

required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

I get a compile error:

Cannot overwrite ‘init’ which has been marked unavailable

I commented out the routine so it would compile – don’t know if that effects things.

UPDATE: I tried the version here and it worked. But it is a fairly plain display – no headings, no way back to my calling VC, etc. So as a start I created a blank VC and did this…

        let vc = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil).instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("TwitterViewController") as! TwitterViewController
        self.presentViewController(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

figuring I’d figure out how to pretty it up later. Well, it crashed the same way as the original one. So I guess you can only use this on a plain vanilla VC? Is there any way to customize things. As it is, it is not useful to me.

FURTHER UPDATE: The screen shot on the Timelines page shows a header with the handle and a back button. That is enough to work for me. How do I get that to display?

YET ANOTHER UPDATE; By using self.navigationController?.pushViewController instead of self.presentViewController I got my back button, Probably obvious to you all but I’m still learning the ins and outs of IOS

[kang]

Hi @AlexR, @971nce, @FredWaltman1,

The initWithCoder: problem in Swift has been fixed in TwitterKit 1.6.1. Please check it out and let us know if that does not fix your problem.

[niall]