iOS web browser Google search - ios

Question

The assignment was to take anything with a space in the search query, assume it is a search criteria, and run it through a Google programmatically. Here is the code:
NSString *URLString = textField.text;
if ([URLString rangeOfString:#" "].location > 0) {
NSString *searchString = [URLString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"+"];
NSURL *searchURL =[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://google.com/search?q=%#",searchString]];
NSURLRequest *searchRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:searchURL];
[self.webview loadRequest:searchRequest];
}
I'm sure it's sloppy, but I was just curious as to why it's not functional. I took it through the debugger, and everything up to "searchString" seems to go well. I'm at a loss.
Let me know if I need to add more code.

Answer 1

I created a project using Xcode 6.3, storyboards, and ran in the iPhone 6 simulator and it works just fine. Here are two screenshots from the simulator:
And here's the code I used. It's slightly different from yours and I also included my whole VC:
#import "ViewController.h"
#interface ViewController ()
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *searchText;
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
#end
#implementation ViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
- (IBAction)googleItButtonPress:(id)sender {
NSString *searchString = self.searchText.text;
if ([searchString rangeOfString:#" "].location > 0) {
NSString *searchStringModified = [searchString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"+"];
NSURL *searchURL =[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://google.com/search?q=%#",searchStringModified]];
NSURLRequest *searchRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:searchURL];
[self.webView loadRequest:searchRequest];
}
}
#end
I'm also getting this when I print the value of my modified search string if I set a breakpoint for the debugger:
(lldb) po searchStringModified
google+stuff
Looks like you're good to go. In this case just use storyboards and make sure your UIWebView is connected to your VC code.

Answer 2

Not sure what happened, but I suffered a case of spontaneous resolution. Thanks, everyone, for your time and advice.

Answer 3

Check this thing this work fine for me
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
NSString *URLString = #"HEllo World";
if ([URLString rangeOfString:#" "].location > 0) {
NSString *searchString = [URLString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"+"];
NSURL *searchURL =[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://google.com/search?q=%#",searchString]];
NSURLRequest *searchRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:searchURL];
[webview loadRequest:searchRequest];
}
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
NSLog(#"Started Loading");
}
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
}