Encoding issue: Cocoa Error 261?

Question

So I\'m fetching a JSON string from a php script in my iPhone app using:

NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@\"test.php\"];
NSError *encodeError = [[NSError a         


        

Answer 1

For future reference, if you need to override the encoding, and you're working with streams without embedded NULs, something like this might be good (I've just written a rough sketch outline here, check this code is and does want you want before using it):

NSHTTPURLResponse* resp=nil;
NSData* jsonAsImmutableData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:
  [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://"]]
  returningResponse:&resp error:NULL];

NSMutableData*modifiedData = [NSMutableData dataWithData:jsonAsImmutableData];

char extraNulls[7] =
  {0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; // is this defensive enough for your encoding?
[modifiedData appendBytes:extraNulls length:7];

NSString* jsonAsString = [NSString stringWithCString:[modifiedData bytes]
  encoding:];

But I expect your best course of action is to check that your server is both using and claiming to use UTF-8 encoding or some other Apple iPhone supported encoding.

EDIT

altered code comment.