Set PFQueryTableViewCell imageView as a local image - ios

Question

[Developing for iOS using Swift]
I am pulling data from Parse and populating a PFQueryTableView with it, and based on one of the values of the PFObjects that I am using to populate the tableView, I would like to set the imageView of the cell to an image stored locally in my Xcode images.xcassets.
This is my code:
// Set cells for each row of table
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath, object: PFObject?) -> PFTableViewCell? {
var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell") as! PFTableViewCell!
if cell == nil {
cell = PFTableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, reuseIdentifier: "Cell")
}
// Set image as read/unread
if let readStatus = object!["readStatus"] as? String {
if readStatus == "unread" {
cell.imageView?.image = UIImage(named: "unreadImage")
} else if readStatus == "read" {
cell.imageView?.image = UIImage(named: "readImage")
}
}
return cell
}
But it does not set the image...
If I change this line with a ! after imageView (like so): cell.imageView!.image = UIImage(named: "readImage")
I get the error:
fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value
So how can I set the cell's image based on a Parse value (but I want the image to be a local image)

Answer 1

Something is wrong with your cell object. First of all, you don't need the ! mark at the end. You should have it like this:
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell") as! PFTableViewCell
In Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2 your next line would not compile because you are checking for nil something that cannot be nil - you are force unwrapping the cell so it is no more an optional and you don't need to check for nil.
So remove the if cell == nil lines and see if your cell is set up correctly in IB (check if you've set the identifier).