[Error]: bad characters in classname - PFQueryTableViewController - parse-platform

Question

Hi I've been trying to test the functionality of the Parse PFQueryTableViewController... however keep receiving the following error:
[Error]: bad characters in classname: (null) (Code: 103, Version: 1.8.0)
I'm using the standard code from the Parse website for doing this and attempting to load the tableviewcontroller from my Pase class: Categories
i.e:
- (instancetype)initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style {
self = [super initWithStyle:style];
if (self) { // This table displays items in the Todo class
self.parseClassName = #"Categories";
self.pullToRefreshEnabled = YES;
self.paginationEnabled = YES;
self.objectsPerPage = 25;
}
return self;
}
- (PFQuery *)queryForTable {
PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:self.parseClassName];
// If no objects are loaded in memory, we look to the cache first to fill the table
// and then subsequently do a query against the network.
// if (self.objects.count == 0) {
// query.cachePolicy = kPFCachePolicyCacheThenNetwork;
// }
[query orderByDescending:#"createdAt"];
return query;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
object:(PFObject *)object {
static NSString *cellIdentifier = #"categoryCell";
PFTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
if (!cell) {
cell = [[PFTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];}
// Configure the cell to show todo item with a priority at the bottom
cell.textLabel.text = object[#"Category"];
cell.detailTextLabel.text = object[#"Sequence"];
return cell;
}
Any help would be great fully received, thanks.

Answer 1

There is a problem when creating the parse-supplied vc using interface builder: IB view controllers are initialized with initWithCoder:, not initWithStyle.
One way to cover either kind of initializer is to factor the custom code and implement both, like this:
- (void)customInit {
self.parseClassName = #"Categories";
self.pullToRefreshEnabled = YES;
self.paginationEnabled = YES;
self.objectsPerPage = 25;
}
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style {
self = [super initWithStyle:style];
if (self) {
[self customInit];
}
return self;
}
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
if (self) {
[self customInit];
}
return self;
}