a description property isn't submitted to table [NSNULL]

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Hello,
I’m using the following code for adding related user property named goal

+ (void)addUserGoal:(Goal *)goal {
 
 [[DataService sharedInstance].currentUser.goals addObject:goal];
 
 [[backendless.persistenceService of:[BackendlessUser class]] save:[DataService sharedInstance].currentUser response:^(id response) {
 
 [DataService fillGoalsCollections];
 [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"GoalAdded" object:nil];
 
 } error:^(Fault *fault) {
 
 NSLog(@"%@", fault.detail);
 }];
}

it responds with success, and perfectly adds all the fields I need, except for a certain “description” field
this is when i had a description property to my local Goal model in iOS with @synthesize in implementation class, as I couldn’t use NSObject’s default description property because otherwise xcode wouldn’t build and report that it is a readonly property
i’m literally stuck on this and the app crashes because all retrieved description properties for the goals I submitted through the iOS app are read as NSNull’s now, so kindly a little help on this

appid = 310FB739-738B-ABD0-FF01-83B62265E300

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even after i tried this solution for overriding readonly property, the description property won’t be set in backendless

3

Hi Ahmed,

Why don’t you create a separate custom property for your reasons? I don’t think that using a protected NSObject’s property as your custom data object’s field is a good idea.

4

Hello Sergey,

The iOS app I’m creating also has an android version to it, so we need to be using the same parameters in dealing with Backendless

Even if I try using another custom property, I will always have to set the description property when I try to add/modify a goal object

Now I’m trying with my team to push through the idea of changing the field’s name, but it isn’t a simple request to make at this point especially as the Web (Javascript) and Android passed this part without problems

5

Ahmed, you should not use ‘description’ as a property name, because NSObject class already has the method with this name.