Reporting crash on UITableview reloadData - ios

Question

I'm getting a crash report from Crashlytics that is always in the same place but I'm unable to replicate the crash.
It seems to be only users on iOS 9 and only very occasionally. I'm not sure if it's a code issue or something else. The last line mentions libdispatch.dylib as being missing, again, not sure if relevant.
Crashlytics indicates that the crash occurs at MMDetailTableVC.m line 1407, which is the reloadData line.
Here's what is reported:
Crashed: com.apple.main-thread
EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x0000000000000001
Thread : Crashed: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x20f0fae2 objc_msgSend + 1
1 CoreFoundation 0x2168b91b -[NSDictionary descriptionWithLocale:indent:] + 310
2 Foundation 0x21e77e2d _NSDescriptionWithLocaleFunc + 60
3 CoreFoundation 0x217091a3 __CFStringAppendFormatCore + 7986
4 CoreFoundation 0x21707255 _CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArgumentsAux2 + 80
5 CoreFoundation 0x2171f559 _CFLogvEx2 + 96
6 CoreFoundation 0x2171f9af _CFLogvEx3 + 118
7 Foundation 0x21f3f4f7 _NSLogv + 126
8 Foundation 0x21e8679d NSLog + 28
9 UIKit 0x259b45fb -[UITableView reloadData] + 1818
10 Simple Meeting Minutes 0x91fff -[MMDetailTableVC saveItemEntry:] (MMDetailTableVC.m:1407)
11 Simple Meeting Minutes 0xa2edf -[MMItemViewController saveButtonAction:] (MMItemViewController.m:526)
12 UIKit 0x25905771 -[UIApplication sendAction:to:from:forEvent:] + 80
13 UIKit 0x25a86c71 -[UIBarButtonItem(UIInternal) _sendAction:withEvent:] + 140
14 UIKit 0x25905771 -[UIApplication sendAction:to:from:forEvent:] + 80
15 UIKit 0x25905701 -[UIControl sendAction:to:forEvent:] + 64
16 UIKit 0x258ed61f -[UIControl _sendActionsForEvents:withEvent:] + 446
17 UIKit 0x258ed74b -[UIControl _sendActionsForEvents:withEvent:] + 746
18 UIKit 0x25905051 -[UIControl touchesEnded:withEvent:] + 616
19 UIKit 0x25904cbf -[UIWindow _sendTouchesForEvent:] + 646
20 UIKit 0x258fd5d7 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 642
21 UIKit 0x258ce119 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 204
22 UIKit 0x258cc757 _UIApplicationHandleEventQueue + 5134
23 CoreFoundation 0x216f9257 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 14
24 CoreFoundation 0x216f8e47 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 454
25 CoreFoundation 0x216f71af __CFRunLoopRun + 806
26 CoreFoundation 0x21649bb9 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 516
27 CoreFoundation 0x216499ad CFRunLoopRunInMode + 108
28 GraphicsServices 0x228c3af9 GSEventRunModal + 160
29 UIKit 0x25935fb5 UIApplicationMain + 144
30 Simple Meeting Minutes 0x8c59f main (main.m:16)
31 libdispatch.dylib 0x212fc873 (Missing)
And here's my code for saveItemEntry that always seems to be the place where the crash occurs.
- (void)saveItemEntry:(MMitem *)item{
if (item)
{
NSString *resultStr = [self.meetingModel saveItem:item];
if ([resultStr isEqualToString:#"OK"])
{
// all good so close form and refresh data
[_itemViewController dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil];
[self.tableView reloadData];
// or if there is an error result then display message
}
else if ([resultStr isEqualToString:#"DescriptionNotesMissing"])
{
[self showAlert:#"Missing Description or Notes" :#"An Item Description or Notes is required" :0];
[self.itemViewController.itemDescription becomeFirstResponder];
}
// for any other error do nothing
}
}

Answer 1

We don't know if you are calling this method in main thread or not.
And also tableview is taking time in reloading it's cell. So it would be great, if you can add these codes in dispatch_get_main_queue
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
[_itemViewController dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil];
[self.tableView reloadData];
}
and
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
[self showAlert:#"Missing Description or Notes" :#"An Item Description or Notes is required" :0];
[self.itemViewController.itemDescription becomeFirstResponder];
}
It will be much safe, if we are working on refreshing the UI from any notification or delegation with dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){

Answer 2

Hooray - finally found the reason for this elusive problem. The crash was being due to the user being in edit mode within a UITextfield within a cell in the table when the reloadData was being called (as a result of the user tapping elsewhere or rotating the iPad, which also called ReloadData).
I fixed the issue by preceeding any [self.tableView ReloadData] with [self.view endEditing:YES] to ensure that the keyboard was dismissed and cells were not in an edit mode.
Does make sense but what a nasty trap.