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by lucasar 2235 days ago
I am an iOS developer and most likely the problem is related to configuration and basic analytics, not "siphoning" app data.

Offending code :

if (restrictiveParams[eventName][@"is_deprecated_event"]) {

        [deprecatedEventSet addObject:eventName];
}

So, the iOS library does not check for nil, and whatever the server is returning does not have the expected content. Lame.
1 comments
bryansum 2235 days ago
Looks like that would've probably been caught if it were written in Swift.
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K0nserv 2234 days ago 

    if (restrictiveParams[eventName] as! [String: Any])["test"] != nil
In Swift, now hopefully you wouldn't write this code but it's not entirely unlikely too. In fact the above Objective-C snippet is one of the few cases where Objective-C's forgiving `nil` behaviour doesn't save you from a crash.
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