I have a working ValueTransformer that runs fine in simulator/device, but crashes in SwiftUI Preview. Even though they are the same code.
Here is my code
import Foundation
final class StringBoolDictTransformer: ValueTransformer {
override func transformedValue(_ value: Any?) -> Any? {
guard let stringBoolDict = value as? [String: Bool] else { return nil }
let nsDict = NSMutableDictionary()
for (key, bool) in stringBoolDict {
nsDict[key] = NSNumber(value: bool)
}
do {
let data = try NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: nsDict, requiringSecureCoding: true)
return data
} catch {
debugPrint("Unable to convert [Date: Bool] to a persistable form: \(error.localizedDescription)")
return nil
}
}
override func reverseTransformedValue(_ value: Any?) -> Any? {
guard let data = value as? Data else { return nil }
do {
guard let nsDict = try NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchivedDictionary(ofKeyClass: NSString.self, objectClass: NSNumber.self, from: data) else {
return nil
}
var result = [String: Bool]()
for (key, value) in nsDict {
result[key as String] = value.boolValue
}
return result
} catch {
debugPrint("Unable to convert persisted Data to [Date: Bool]: \(error.localizedDescription)")
return nil
}
}
override class func allowsReverseTransformation() -> Bool {
true
}
override class func transformedValueClass() -> AnyClass {
NSDictionary.self
}
}
and here is the container
public struct SwiftDataManager {
public static let shared = SwiftDataManager()
public var sharedModelContainer: ModelContainer
init() {
ValueTransformer.setValueTransformer(
StringBoolDictTransformer(), forName: NSValueTransformerName("StringBoolDictTransformer")
)
let schema = Schema([,
Plan.self
])
let modelConfiguration = ModelConfiguration(schema: schema, isStoredInMemoryOnly: false)
do {
sharedModelContainer = try ModelContainer(for: schema, configurations: [modelConfiguration])
} catch {
fatalError("Could not create ModelContainer: \(error)")
}
}
}
and the model
@Model
final class Plan {
@Attribute(.transformable(by: StringBoolDictTransformer.self))
var dict: [String: Bool] = [:]
}
I would get that container and pass it in appdelegate and it works fine. I would get that container and pass it inside a #Preview and it would crash with the following:
Runtime: iOS 17.5 (21F79) - DeviceType: iPhone 15 Pro
CoreFoundation:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Unacceptable type of value for attribute: property = "dict"; desired type = NSDictionary; given type = _NSInlineData; value = {length = 2, bytes = 0x7b7d}.'
libsystem_c.dylib:
abort() called
Version 16.0 (16A242d)
If the intent is really to persist a [String: Bool]
dictionary, you don't need to use transformable attribute. The following code should just work (on both iOS 17 and 18) because SwiftData supports (most) Codable
types:
@Model
final class Plan {
var dict: [String: Bool] = [:]
...
}
If your code snippet is to demonstrate that using SwiftData transformable attributes triggers a crash on iOS 17, I am pretty sure that is a bug, which has been fixed on iOS 18. I don't see any workaround unfortunately – To support iOS 17, you might consider avoiding using transformable attributes.
Best,
——
Ziqiao Chen
Worldwide Developer Relations.