Creating a Data Model To Encapsulate Values That Will Become The textTitle.text Attributes Of A Custom Table View Cell?

Question

This question may seem a little weird but let me simplify and give you a visual.

You have a UITableView in storyboard, along with the custom UITableView class in the project navigator. Lets say the the title of this custom class is CTableViewController.

You want to customize your tableViewCells accordingly, Therefore you have to create another custom class. This being a subclass of UITableViewCell. following the same naming model, CTableViewCell.

You've added a UILabel to your CTableViewCell header and connected it via storyboard:

@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UILabel *titleLabel;

Here's the viewDidLoadMethod in CTableView

- (void)viewDidLoad 
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    _moodsArray = @[@"Mad",
               @"Dazed",
               @"Happy",
               @"Strange",
               @"Intense"]; 

}

Now in CTableView cellForRowAtIndePath: depending on the index of the array count you want to show that objects index as the title, i've created this for loop with nested if statements, that works.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

    //make the custom cell class create its own cell and use the reuse idenifier from storyboard.
     moodTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];

    //this also works to set the text to the right indexPath
//    int row = [indexPath row];
//    cell.titleLabel.text = _Moods[row];


    //go through the count of the array and according to the indexPath set its titleLabel.

    for (int i = 0; i < [_moodsArray count]; i++)
    {
        static int defaultTextSize = 24;

        if (indexPath.row == 0)
        {

        cell.titleLabel.text = [_moodsArray objectAtIndex:0];
        cell.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Heiti TC" size:defaultTextSize];
        cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
//        cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"The Moods Here";
        }
        else if (indexPath.row == 1)

        {
            cell.titleLabel.text = [_moodsArray objectAtIndex:1];
            cell.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Heiti TC" size:defaultTextSize];
          //  cell.detailTextLabel.text
        }
       else if (indexPath.row == 2)
        {
            cell.titleLabel.text = [_moodsArray objectAtIndex:2];
            cell.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Heiti TC" size:defaultTextSize];
        }
       else if (indexPath.row == 3)
        {
            cell.titleLabel.text = [_moodsArray objectAtIndex:3];
            cell.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Heiti TC" size:defaultTextSize];

        }
       else if (indexPath.row == 4)
        {
            cell.titleLabel.text = [_moodsArray objectAtIndex:4];
            cell.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Heiti TC" size:defaultTextSize];
        }

        /*
         //mood being a Mood object and then mainMoods being a property of The Mood object that has an NSArray holding the main moods
         cell.titleLabel.text = [self.mood.mainMoods objectAtIndex:4];

         */


    }



    return cell;
}

All of this works flawlessly, But after following Pasan Premaratne in creating a Data Model, i did the same by creating a subclass NSObject to make sure my code is extremely efficient.

Therefore, I created a subclass of NSObject named Mood, that contains the array of moods.

I created the init method inside of this subclass and initialized the array within the same scope. then went back to CTableView and changed every line that said '_moodsArray' to 'self.mood.mainMoods'

mainMoods being the array property of the Mood object.

When i compile my code, there are no compiler errors or runtime Errors, the titles just don't appear. Would it make a difference if i used a NSManagedObject subclass?

Any suggestions? Ben Jakuben Amit Bijlani Ash Furrow Stone Preston

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