UIWebView not loading URL when URL is passed from UITableView
- by Mark Hazlett
Hey Everyone,
So i'm building a webView into my application to show the contents of a URL that I am passing from a selection in a UITableView. I know the UIWebView is loading content properly because if you hard code say http://www.google.ca into the NSURL then it loads fine, however when I'm passing the URL that I parsed from an RSS feed back from the UITableView it won't load the URL properly. I tried the debugger and the URL is coming out as nil right before I try and parse it, however I can use NSLog to print the value of it out to the console.
here's the code in my UIViewController that has my UIWebView
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface ReadFeedWebViewController : UIViewController
{
NSString *urlToGet;
IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
}
@property(nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
@property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *urlToGet;
@end
Here's the code for my implementation's viewDidLoad method...
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSLog(@"Url inside Web View Controller - %@", urlToGet);
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlToGet];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[self.webView loadRequest:requestObj];
}
Once again, I can print the URL to NSLog fine and if I hard code the URL into the NSURL object then it will load fine in the UIWebView. Here is where I'm setting the value in my UITableViewController...
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
ReadFeedWebViewController *extendedView = [[ReadFeedWebViewController alloc] init];
int storyIndex = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] - 1];
extendedView.urlToGet = [[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey:@"link"];
//NSLog([[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey:@"summary"]);
NSLog([[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey:@"link"]);
[self.navigationController pushViewController:extendedView animated:YES];
[extendedView release];
}
However, since I can print the value using NSLog in the extendedView view controller I know it's being passed properly. Cheers
