NSUserDefaults Custom object - Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain objects of type 'CFType')

Question

I must be incorrectly using Custom Objects for NSUserDefaults. The error \" Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain objects of type \'CFType\')\

Answer 1

I am going to just copy code from a working project I have:

here is the Game object class with data from a math flash card game:

import Foundation

class GameData: NSObject {

    var sign: String = "+"
    var level: Int = 1
    var problems: Int = 10
    var time: Int = 30
    var skipWrong: Bool = true
    var usedTime: Int = 0
    var correctCount: Int = 0
    var correctTopNumber: [Int] = [Int]()
    var correctBottomNumber: [Int] = [Int]()
    var wrongTopNumber: [Int] = [Int]()
    var wrongBottomNumber: [Int] = [Int]()
    var date: NSDate = NSDate()

    func encodeWithCoder(aCoder: NSCoder!) {
        aCoder.encodeObject(sign, forKey: "sign")
        aCoder.encodeInteger(level, forKey: "level")
        aCoder.encodeInteger(problems, forKey: "problems")
        aCoder.encodeInteger(time, forKey: "time")
        aCoder.encodeBool(skipWrong, forKey: "skipWrong")
        aCoder.encodeInteger(usedTime, forKey: "usedTime")
        aCoder.encodeInteger(correctCount, forKey: "correctCount")
        aCoder.encodeObject(correctTopNumber, forKey: "correctTopNumber")
        aCoder.encodeObject(correctBottomNumber, forKey: "correctBottomNumber")
        aCoder.encodeObject(wrongTopNumber, forKey: "wrongTopNumber")
        aCoder.encodeObject(wrongBottomNumber, forKey: "wrongBottomNumber")
        aCoder.encodeObject(date, forKey: "date")
    }

    init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder!) {
        sign = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("sign") as String
        level = aDecoder.decodeIntegerForKey("level")
        problems = aDecoder.decodeIntegerForKey("problems")
        time = aDecoder.decodeIntegerForKey("time")
        skipWrong = aDecoder.decodeBoolForKey("skipWrong")
        usedTime = aDecoder.decodeIntegerForKey("usedTime")
        correctCount = aDecoder.decodeIntegerForKey("correctCount")
        correctTopNumber = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("correctTopNumber") as Array
        correctBottomNumber = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("correctBottomNumber") as Array
        wrongTopNumber = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("wrongTopNumber") as Array
        wrongBottomNumber = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("wrongBottomNumber") as Array
        date = aDecoder.decodeObjectForKey("date") as NSDate
    }

    override init() {
    }
}

This part looks about the same as yours, but with more variable types. The archiver and retriever classes differ from you:

import Foundation

class ArchiveGameData:NSObject {

    var documentDirectories:NSArray = []
    var documentDirectory:String = ""
    var path:String = ""

    func ArchiveResults(#dataSet: [GameData]) {
        documentDirectories = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
        documentDirectory = documentDirectories.objectAtIndex(0) as String
        path = documentDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent("results3.archive")

        if NSKeyedArchiver.archiveRootObject(dataSet, toFile: path) {
            //println("Success writing to file!")
        } else {
            println("Unable to write to file!")
        }
    }

    func RetrieveGameData() -> NSObject {
        var dataToRetrieve = [GameData]()
        documentDirectories = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
        documentDirectory = documentDirectories.objectAtIndex(0) as String
        path = documentDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent("results3.archive")
        if let dataToRetrieve2 = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithFile(path) as? [GameData] {
          dataToRetrieve = dataToRetrieve2
        }
        return(dataToRetrieve)
    }
}

Finally, the code for storing and retrieving from within a ViewController:

//retrieveing
    var gameDataArray = ArchiveGameData().RetrieveGameData() as [GameData]

//Archiving
      gameData = GameData() //create local object then append all the new data, then store it
gameData.sign = buttonStates.sign
        gameData.level = buttonStates.level
        gameData.problems = buttonStates.problems
        gameData.time = buttonStates.time
//etc. for all properties

      ArchiveGameData().ArchiveResults(dataSet: gameDataArray)