hopefully fixes #629

should also get rid of empty comments if they couldn't be loaded

Model/Applications/PipedAPI.swift

@@ -113,8 +113,11 @@ final class PipedAPI: Service, ObservableObject, VideosAPI {
             content.json.arrayValue.compactMap { self.extractVideo(from: $0) }
         }
 
-        configureTransformer(pathPattern("comments/*")) { (content: Entity<JSON>) -> CommentsPage in
-            let details = content.json.dictionaryValue
+        configureTransformer(pathPattern("comments/*")) { (content: Entity<JSON>?) -> CommentsPage in
+            guard let details = content?.json.dictionaryValue else {
+                return CommentsPage(comments: [], nextPage: nil, disabled: true)
+            }
+
             let comments = details["comments"]?.arrayValue.compactMap { self.extractComment(from: $0) } ?? []
             let nextPage = details["nextpage"]?.string
             let disabled = details["disabled"]?.bool ?? false
@@ -663,16 +666,16 @@ final class PipedAPI: Service, ObservableObject, VideosAPI {
 
         let videoStreams = content.dictionaryValue["videoStreams"]?.arrayValue ?? []
 
-        videoStreams.forEach { videoStream in
+        for videoStream in videoStreams {
             let videoCodec = videoStream.dictionaryValue["codec"]?.string ?? ""
             if Self.disallowedVideoCodecs.contains(where: videoCodec.contains) {
-                return
+                continue
             }
 
             guard let audioAssetUrl = audioStream.dictionaryValue["url"]?.url,
                   let videoAssetUrl = videoStream.dictionaryValue["url"]?.url
             else {
-                return
+                continue
             }
 
             let audioAsset = AVURLAsset(url: audioAssetUrl)

Model/CommentsModel.swift

@@ -35,32 +35,35 @@ final class CommentsModel: ObservableObject {
 
     func load(page: String? = nil) {
         guard let video = player.currentVideo else { return }
-
-        if !firstPage && !nextPageAvailable {
-            return
-        }
-
-        firstPage = page.isNil || page!.isEmpty
+        guard firstPage || nextPageAvailable else { return }
 
         player
             .playerAPI(video)?
             .comments(video.videoID, page: page)?
             .load()
             .onSuccess { [weak self] response in
-                if let page: CommentsPage = response.typedContent() {
-                    self?.all += page.comments
-                    self?.nextPage = page.nextPage
-                    self?.disabled = page.disabled
+                guard let self = self else { return }
+                if let commentsPage: CommentsPage = response.typedContent() {
+                    self.all += commentsPage.comments
+                    self.nextPage = commentsPage.nextPage
+                    self.disabled = commentsPage.disabled
+                } else {
+                    print("Failed to parse response: \(response)")
                 }
             }
-            .onFailure { [weak self] requestError in
-                self?.disabled = !requestError.json.dictionaryValue["error"].isNil
+            .onFailure { [weak self] error in
+                self?.handleFailure(error: error)
             }
             .onCompletion { [weak self] _ in
                 self?.loaded = true
             }
     }
 
+    func handleFailure(error: Error) {
+        disabled = true
+        print("Encountered an error: \(error)")
+    }
+
     func loadNextPageIfNeeded(current comment: Comment) {
         let thresholdIndex = all.index(all.endIndex, offsetBy: -5)
         if all.firstIndex(where: { $0 == comment }) == thresholdIndex {