NSURLErrorDomain -999 breaks Flash - objective-c

I have a WebView which works great except in one instance. When it loads a page with a SWF that loads another SWF, the load delegate gets "The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -999.)"
From what I gather, this error happens when a second request is made before the first has completed (1, 2, 3, 4). I am not expressly doing so, but the SWF is indeed making another request.
Ignoring the error is not a solution--I'm essentially ignoring it as is, and the entire page loads fine except for the Flash content. What can I do to make Flash work?

I'm not sure if not implementing the delegate call is the same as ignoring it; WebKit might be trying to handle the error under the hood and causing problems.
In my WebKit/Flash application, I have this in my WebFrameLoadDelegate:
- (void) webView:(WebView*)sender
didFailProvisionalLoadWithError:(NSError*)error
forFrame:(WebFrame*)frame
{
// If the user clicks a link while something is loading this error will
// be reported. It can be safely ignored (NSURLErrorCancelled -999)
if ([error code] == NSURLErrorCancelled) return;
// Real error handling here...
}
And everything works fine. If I take this out I start getting weird failures and even crashes when Flash content is displayed.

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CreateFileAsync in SuspensionManager throws indecipherable exception

I created a new Windows Store app project using the Grid App (XAML) template. I ran the project (in debug mode) without changing a single line of code. While it was running, I switched back to Visual Studio and clicked the Suspend button in the toolbar.
At this point, the app threw a SuspensionManagerException. The exception’s details weren’t too helpful. The message is SuspensionManager failed. It has the (so far) unhelpful HResult -2146233088. It also has an InnerException that’s just as unhelpful. Its message is Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. and its HResult, which is -2147467259, is even worse than the outer exception’s HResult.
The line of code that throws the exception is in the SuspensionManager, which, again, is part of the project template. Here’s the line:
StorageFile file = await ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.CreateFileAsync(sessionStateFilename, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);
The part that triggers the exception is LocalFolder.CreateFileAsync(…). The MSDN documentation for the CreateFileAsync method has a “Remarks” section that reads: If you try to create a file in a virtual folder like a library or a file group, this method may fail.
That’s it. There’s no explanation of why it may fail, or a description of the conditions under which it may fail, or what you can do about it.
As it happens, even when it fails, the file is actually created. The file in question is called _sessionState.xml and is located at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\<package_id>\LocalState. If I delete the file and re-suspend the app, the exception is throw again and the file is recreated.
I've searched high and low and haven't found anything conclusive. The CreateFileAsync method is a projection, so I can't easily disassemble it or figure out why it "may fail".
Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this problem, or how to go about debugging or solving it?
The first thing to check is that Frame.Navigate should only take primitives as its parameter argument.
Also, make sure you are calling GetDeferral in your async event handler.

How do I catch 'Uncaught typeError: Cannot read property 'isModel' of undefined' during App load?

I'm developing ST2 on Chrome which uses localstorage. From time to time, it appears that the storage schema gets corrupted. When this happens, my app fails during load with "Uncaught typeError: Cannot read property 'isModel' of undefined". The only way to get my app running is to do localstorage.clear() in the console.
I'm assuming this is an ST2 bug, since the occurrence of the corruption seems unrelated to my code, or what I do in my app.
My main question is how do I catch the exception in such a way that either the app can recover, or the user is alerted as to what is going on? Right now, the app simply fails to load. I've tried wrapping the Ext.application() in app.js, but that is executing correctly. My launch function is not being reached.
There must be some weird thing going on with your app. Probably you have found the reason meanwhile and recognised the failing bit is somewhere in your app. Anyway if you are experiencing anything like this then probably the best bet is to catch the error event and do your error handling there. I.e.
window.addEventListener("error", function(errorEvent) {
//
// Add your error handling here
//
// if returns true, the error is suppressed and not thrown
return false;
});

How to know if QLPreviewController successfully loaded a document/failed to load it?

My iOS app loads a variety of documents using QLPreviewController. My aim is to set a flag if the document loaded properly and show an error if it didn't.
Curiously the QLPreviewControllerDelegate protocol offers no callback to check this, nor does the QLPreviewController seem to throw any exception when I try to load an invalid file.
For the record, I tried loading an invalid PDF and it simply logged a message about not being able to find the header and displayed an empty file.
Can anyone please tell me how I can figure this out?
Thanks!
If establishing whether an item could be displayed beforehand works for you then a call to the following may be an option:
+(BOOL)canPreviewItem:(id<QLPreviewItem>) item

iOS UIWebView - trap exceptions loading invalid file format

I have a UIViewController containing a UIWebView which I am using to view various documents. Occasionally a document may attempt to be loaded which is not supported by the UIWebView (e.g. old Excel 2.0 sheet). Currently this causes output in the debug window as follows :
exception: CPMessageException: The file format is invalid.
EXCEPTION CPMessageException: (null)
The webViewDidStartLoad method fires, but neither webViewDidFinishLoad or didFailLoadWithError fires.
The error doesn't crash the app, but I would like to trap this exception to provide my own message for the user. Can anybody suggest how to trap and handle this?
Many thanks,
Jonathan
Unfortunately CPMessageException is part of the private frameworks of Apple, in case of office files, OfficeImport.framework. This is thrown when the framework receives an unusable file.
The reason your application is not crashing is because it is probably being handled in the import code itself. Even setting NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler will not work (as I have tried in the past).
The best way to go around this would be to use the shouldStartLoadWithRequest delegate method of UIWebView:
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
Here you could preemptively stop the file from being loaded into the web view and avoid a clueless blank screen.
(Am not sure if there is a way to read NSLog output on the fly so you could monitor it. But that is probably not a right way to do it!)
Update: Just filed a bug regarding this. Let us see what the Apple Developers have to say on this.

How do I pause my app until a crash report has been submitted?

Background
I'm using UKCrashReporter in my app.
I've installed my own Uncaught
Exception Handler.
I'm setting up the
managedObjectContext of the object
activeItemController in
applicationDidFinishLaunching (1)
The Problem
If the managedObjectContext method throws an exception, the crash reporter dialog box only flashes up before the app crashes and so the user never gets to report the crash.
I want my app to continue only after the crash has been reported, not whilst the window is showing.
What I've tried
If UKCrashReporterCheckForCrash()
were an objective C method, I assume
I could call
performSelectorOnMainThread:waitUntilDone:YES
but it's not.
I've looked at some other Stack
Overflow questions about using
Conditional Locks to pause apps,
but I can't understand how I'd use it
for a C function.
How would I go about doing this in a nice way? Do people have any advice
for me? Any responses would be much
appreciated.
The Code
// In app delegate
-(void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
UKCrashReporterCheckForCrash(); // A C function which then creates a window if
// it detects a crash has happened.
}
-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
[activeItemController setMoContextDisk:[self managedObjectContext]];
[activeItemController setMoContextMemory:[self managedObjectContextMemory]];
}
Update 1
I've been asked for more details on what I'm trying to do, so here goes.
The bug that triggered this thinking was an exception when merging managedObjectModels. My app got caught in a loop printing "Uncaught exception" to the console every few milliseconds.
And when I installed the uncaught exception handler before this exception happened, I'd get the described behaviour - my app would fire up, display the crash report dialog briefly, then continue to load and crash again.
Summary - I want to be able to handle errors that happen on startup.
(1) I'm not using bindings to do this, as I thought bindings would make testing the class more problematic.
I think your problem is with thinking of it as "pausing" your app. Think of it more as a different initial UI state. Your attempts to block the run loop will prevent any interactive window from ... well, being interactive. :-)
Your best bet is to show your main UI (and connect data sources, etc) only if the "am I prompting the user to submit a crash report" method says "no, go ahead and start normally". Otherwise, show your window and, when the user sends or declines to send the report, close the window and ask your app controller to continue the normal startup.
I looked at UKCrashReporterCheckForCrash() and it doesn't appear to create a window of any kind. It merely submits the crash. Could you describe what you're doing with more detail?