Swift - Error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an optional value

Question

I have been making an app in Swift but I keep getting an error in my TableViewController class. I could not find any way to fix this and kept getting this error :

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView?, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!) -> UITableViewCell!  {
        let cell : TextTableViewCell = tableView!.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath : indexPath!) as TextTableViewCell

    let madan : PFObject = self.timeLineData.objectAtIndex(indexPath!.row) as PFObject

    cell.timestampLabel.alpha = 0
    cell.usernameLabel.alpha = 0
    cell.madanTextView.alpha = 0

    cell.madanTextView.text = madan.objectForKey("content") as String

    var dateFormatter : NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm"
    cell.timestampLabel.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(madan.createdAt)

    var findSender : PFQuery = PFUser.query()
    findSender.whereKey("objectId", equalTo: madan.objectForKey("sender").objectId)
    var i = 1
    findSender.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock {
        (objects: [AnyObject]!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
        if !error {
            let user : PFUser = (objects as NSArray).lastObject as PFUser // Error here

            cell.usernameLabel.text = user.username 

            UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5, animations: {

                cell.timestampLabel.alpha = 1
                cell.usernameLabel.alpha = 1
                cell.madanTextView.alpha = 1

            })
        }
    }    
    return cell
}

I cannot find any way to fix this.

Answer 1

It looks as if objects is coming back as nil. First check for nil:

if !error {
    if let actualObjects = objects {
        let possibleUser = (actualObjects as NSArray).lastObject as? PFUser
        if let user = possibleUser {
            cell.usernameLabel.text = user.username
            // ...
        }
    }
}

Note: I changed your as to as?. lastObject is already returning an Optional and so you might as well let the execution continue if the last object cannot be converted to PFUser. Also, because lastObject might return nil, you also need to check that for nil.