Plist is not creating in Objective C - ios

Question

When i got my server response and trying to save that in plist, but plist file is not creating.
I have logged file path and dictionary contents but all these have data still plist not creating
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[self sideMenu:#"ML"];
return YES;
}
this will call following method
-(void)sideMenu:(NSString *)title{
NSString *myRequestString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"data=%#&deviceid=e8ef8c98262185ec",title];
NSData *myRequestData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[myRequestString UTF8String ] length: [ myRequestString length ] ];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [ [ NSMutableURLRequest alloc ] initWithURL: [ NSURL URLWithString:SIDE_MENU]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody: myRequestData];
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *err;
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request returningResponse:&response error:&err];
NSString* responseString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];
NSArray *myArray = [responseString componentsSeparatedByString:#"<!DOC"];
//NSLog(#"%#",myArray);
if (myArray != nil || [myArray count] > 0) {
NSData *data = [[[myArray objectAtIndex:0]stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"\n" withString:#""] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
id json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:nil];
[self sideMenuFile:title :json];
}
}
-(NSString *)sideMenuFile:(NSString *)titleName :(NSDictionary *)dict{
NSString *filePath;
MyManager *sharedManager =[MyManager sharedManager];
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
if([titleName isEqualToString:#"ML"])
{ sharedManager.sideMenu = [[NSDictionary alloc]init];
sharedManager.sideMenu = dict;
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"ML.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"HM"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"HM.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"PDC"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"PDC.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"SM"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"SM.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"GL"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"GL.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"CU"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"CU.plist"];
}else if ([titleName isEqualToString:#"BR"]){
filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"GL.plist"];
}
NSLog(#"%#",filePath); //printing path
[dict writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
NSString *basePath = ([paths count] > 0) ? [paths objectAtIndex:0] : nil;
NSString *plistName = #"GL";
NSString *finalPath = [basePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:
[NSString stringWithFormat: #"%#.plist", plistName]];
NSDictionary *dictww=[[NSDictionary alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:finalPath];
NSLog(#"dict%#",dictww); //printing nill
return filePath;
}
JSON file structure
{
sigallery = {
rows = (
{
active = True;
gallerytext = "<null>";
galleryurl = "assets/img/content-images/1.jpg";
moddt = "2016-07-19T12:28:18.873";
onclickurl = "testd.in";
settingsid = 1;
showfromdt = "1901-01-01T00:00:00.0";
showsequence = 1;
showuptodt = "2099-12-31T00:00:00.0";
videoimagebanneraudioswitch = I;
},
{
active = True;
gallerytext = "<null>";
galleryurl = "assets/img/content-images/2.jpg";
moddt = "2016-07-19T12:28:18.873";
onclickurl = "testd.in";
settingsid = 1;
showfromdt = "1901-01-01T00:00:00.0";
showsequence = 2;
showuptodt = "2099-12-31T00:00:00.0";
videoimagebanneraudioswitch = I;
}
)
}
}

Answer 1

Your code makes a number of non-optimal assumptions.
1)
Whenever you write out a file, you should always check for any error condition if it's available. NSDictionary's writeTo... methods do return Booleans whether the file has been written out or not, so you could do:
NSLog(#"%#",filePath); //printing path
BOOL success = [dict writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
if (success == false)
{
NSLog(#"did not successfully write dictionary to path %#", filePath);
} else {
// ... do everything else in here
}
2)
You write out files wih the format titleName + GL | PDC | SM.plist but when you try to read things back in, there is no titleName as part of the finalPath, so nothing lines up here.
3)
Also, why do you assume basePath is valid (it looks like it could be nil)?