Showtimes patched
After the initial release of Showtimes I got buried in work as well as started digesting the view programming guide. A new app idea caught my attention and it required me to learn a lot more about custom views.
Last friday I had lunch with a friend, and after lunch I had the notion to fire up Showtimes again. I fired it up when I got back to my laptop and was shocked to see... well nothing really. the app launched, I entered my zip as I had thousands of time before, and it went to work. The problem was it never stopped working. It had never taken that long.
I fired up xcode and opened up the project, made a clean build, and examined the logs as it ran.
zero movies found
yeah that would be a problem. i checked the url that was generated, and there are plenty of movies...
so i started logging the parse errors and checked out the first one.
error at line 112
line 112:
...><\/script>
wtf is that "\" doing there? crashing my parsing that's what.
with some tweaking, i've written some safety code that bandages this problem. I don't like writing band-aids, but it was necessary to fix the immediate problem. Showtimes has been tested to run better now, and upgrade to 0.7.2b is fatally crashing and dead to me for now.
