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Can't call init with data

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
objective-c
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by reproducing the NSInvalidArgumentException from the viewForData:reuseView:size:context: entry point using StoriesASDetailViewController and its initWithStory: call. Inspect the available initializer and the LayoutTest-iOS testing flow; done should be a confirmed, documented resolution for creating the view controller with StoryRealm data.

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Description

Hey! Really excited to get this project working for me.

I have a number of views and view controllers I would like to test. I am using Realm in-memory to create Realm Objects to pass into my inits to instantiate my views and view controllers.

failed: caught "NSInvalidArgumentException", "-[StoriesASDetailViewController initWithStory:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fa5fbe07ce0"

No matter what I try, be it a cell or tableviewcontroller, I just keep getting the error above.

Any advice?

`
+(UIView *)viewForData:(NSDictionary *)data reuseView:(UIView *)reuseView size:(LYTViewSize *)size context:(id _Nullable __autoreleasing *)context {

        StoryModel *story = [[StoryModel alloc] initWithDictionary:data error:nil];

        StoryRealm *local = [[StoryRealm alloc] initWithStoryModel:story];

        StoriesASDetailViewController *footer = [[StoriesASDetailViewController alloc] initWithStory:local];

        StoryDetailCell *cell = [footer.collectionNode cellForItemAtIndexPath:0];

        *context = footer;

        return cell;

}
`

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