Archiving mutable array - doesNotRecognizeSelector exception

Question

I'm having an "doesNotRecognizeSelector" exception and I suspect that maybe my unarchiver return immutable array intstead of mutable. Am I right ? how should I do the archiving and archiving properly ? (place of exception is show down)

Thanks!!!

NSMutableArray* arr;

- (void) write
{
         NSMutableData *data = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];
         NSKeyedArchiver *archiver = [[NSKeyedArchiver alloc] initForWritingWithMutableData:data];

 NSMutableArray *copy = [[NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:self.Arr] copy];
        [archiver encodeObject:copy forKey:@"Key"];
        [archiver finishEncoding];
        [data writeToFile:[Util DataPath] atomically:YES];
        [archiver release];
        [data release];
        [copyOfPaidPacks release];
}




-(NSMutableArray*) read
{
    NSString* DataPath = [Util FilePath];
    NSData *data = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:DataPath];
    NSKeyedUnarchiver *unarchiver = nil;
    if (data != nil)
    {
            unarchiver = [[NSKeyedUnarchiver alloc]initForReadingWithData:data];

    if([self.Arr count] <= 0)
    {
        self.Arr = [unarchiver decodeObjectForKey:@"Key"];  
    }
}

[unarchiver finishDecoding];
[unarchiver release];
[data release];
    return self.arr
}

-(void)B
{
     [self write];
     NSMutableArray* SecondArr = [self read];
     [SecondArr sortUsingSelector:@selector(CompareDate:)]; - > `****THIS IS WHERE I GET THE EXCEPTION`
}

• Edit

Adding the compare method:

- (NSComparisonResult)CompareDate:(T*)p
{
    NSComparisonResult result = [self.changeDate compare:p.changeDate];
    if(result == NSOrderedDescending)
        result = NSOrderedAscending;
    else if(result == NSOrderedAscending)
        result = NSOrderedDescending;

    if(result == NSOrderedSame)
    {
        result = [self CompareName:p];
    }

    return result;
}

Answer 1

NSKeyedUnarchiver does indeed return an immutable NSArray. If you really want to get an NSMutableArray, you'd need to call -mutableCopy on the return value from decodeObjectForKey:.

This code snippet makes me wonder if you really even need a mutable array though. It looks like you're just sorting the array you get from -read. Why not just call sortedArrayUsingSelector: on the immutable NSArray instead?