Swift 3 error: [_SwiftValue pointSize] unrecognized selector sent to instance

31
votes

I just migrated our project to swift 3 and see lots of crashes because of one issue:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[_SwiftValue pointSize]: unrecognized selector sent to instance

The reason for that error is the call to:

[NSAttributedString(NSExtendedStringDrawing) boundingRectWithSize:options:context:]

What I noticed is that if I cast String to NSString and call boundingRectWithSize on it it will throw that error. It also seems to be happening in many other parts, for example if I sent a view controller title in a storyboard it throws the same error.

Anyone having the same problems?

To reproduce the problem:

Create a new Swift 3 project in Xcode 8 and add the following line in viewDidLoad:

let attributes: [String: AnyObject?] = [
            NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14)
        ]
    let boundingRect = ("hello" as NSString).boundingRect(with: CGSize(width: 100, height: 100), options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: attributes, context: nil)

But as I said it crashes in many other places as it seems that UIKit uses this method internally in many parts

3
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Please show your code causing the issue with relevant parts. – OOPer
Looks like it's related to the internal implementation of NSString – 3lvis
I'm getting the same crash but for this: (textLabel.text! as NSString).size(attributes: fontAttributes) I've tried everything from using nsmutablestring, appending strings to it etc. it still crashes. This is apples fault no doubt. Really really bad. Cannot migrate. – ullstrm
Similar crash. What is Apple doing! (No I'm not force unwrapping "doing" ;) ) – Koushik Ravikumar

3 Answers

30
votes

If I use your test code, but let the data type of attributes default, it doesn't crash. That is:

let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14)]

Option-clicking on the variable says it's [String : UIFont].

A little extra testing, suggests that it's related to the optional object; [String: AnyObject] appears to work OK.

EDIT: And after all that, I decided to read the documentation, which says to use [String: Any]. :)

1
votes

The following fixed it for me:

let attributes: [String: UIFont] = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14)]
0
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func attributedString(firstText : String, amount : String, fontSize : CGFloat, color : UIColor) -> NSAttributedString {

    let attrDict = [ NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: fontRegular, size: CGFloat(fontSize/2))!,
                    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.darkGray] as [String : AnyObject]
    let iconString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: firstText, attributes: attrDict)

    let attrDict1 = [ NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: fontRegular, size: CGFloat(fontSize))!,
                     NSForegroundColorAttributeName : color] as [String : AnyObject]
    let amountString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: amount, attributes: attrDict1)

    iconString.append(amountString)
    return iconString
}

And call it like

lblBalanceAmount.attributedText = self.attributedString(firstText: "My Balance", amount: "500", fontSize: newFontSize, color : UIColor(red: 41/255.0, green: 192/255.0, blue: 42/255.0, alpha: 1.0))