NSBundle pathForResource is NULL

objective-c xcode nsbundle
patrick picture patrick · Oct 16, 2010 · Viewed 43.7k times · Source

I'm creating a simple application with xcode and objc and I need to load an NSDictionary from a file, but I can't get the path to the file using NSBundle:

NSString *l = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"LoginStatuses" ofType:@"plist"];
NSLog(@"%@", l);

When I run this code I get this:

2010-10-16 10:42:42.42 Sample[5226:a0f] (null)

And I don't know why.

I created a group called Resources and there I added the LogingStatuses.plist: res

Answer

DarkDust picture DarkDust · Oct 16, 2010

So here's the solution for this problem after I got the source:

I didn't really pay attention to the posted screenshot, but the target is of type "Command-line Tool"... and since those don't have a bundle [NSBundle mainBundle] of course returns nil. It's pretty misleading that Xcode doesn't complain that it can't execute the "Copy Bundle Resources" step, it just silently skips it.

Solution is simply to add a new target, of type "Application" so a bundle-based application is generated. Then check the Target Membership checkboxes for all sources and resources for this new target. The plist paths are correctly resolved then.

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