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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Getting Data from the Web Downloading and Parsing JSON Data

How to access data from blogger( JSON )?

//1 // TableViewController.m // BlogReader

import "TableViewController.h"

@interface TableViewController ()

@end

@implementation TableViewController

  • (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style { self = [super initWithStyle:style]; if (self) { // Custom initialization } return self; }

  • (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad];

    NSURL *blogURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://himalayanfood.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json"];

    NSData *jsonData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:blogURL];

    NSError *error = nil;

    NSDictionary *dataDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:0 error:&error]; NSLog(@"%@",dataDictionary);

    self.blogPosts = [dataDictionary objectForKey:@"entry"]; }

  • (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. }

pragma mark - Table view data source

  • (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView { // Return the number of sections. return 1; }

  • (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section { // Return the number of rows in the section. return [self.blogPosts count]; }

  • (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell"; UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];

    NSDictionary *blogPost = [self.blogPosts objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    cell.textLabel.text = [blogPost valueForKey:@"type"]; // <------What goes here???? cell.detailTextLabel.text = [blogPost valueForKey:@"$t"];//<------What goes here???? return cell; }

/* // Override to support conditional editing of the table view.

  • (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { // Return NO if you do not want the specified item to be editable. return YES; } */

/* // Override to support editing the table view.

  • (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) { // Delete the row from the data source [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade]; } else if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert) { // Create a new instance of the appropriate class, insert it into the array, and add a new row to the table view } } */

/* // Override to support rearranging the table view.

  • (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath { } */

/* // Override to support conditional rearranging of the table view.

  • (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canMoveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { // Return NO if you do not want the item to be re-orderable. return YES; } */

pragma mark - Table view delegate

  • (void)tableView:(UITableView )tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { // Navigation logic may go here. Create and push another view controller. / <#DetailViewController#> *detailViewController = [[<#DetailViewController#> alloc] initWithNibName:@"<#Nib name#>" bundle:nil]; // ... // Pass the selected object to the new view controller. [self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES]; */ }

@end

2 Answers

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The way the data is structured you have a dictionary inside a dictionary. Feed (dictionary) -> Entry (array of dictionaries). To access nested structures you would have to use the method valueForKeyPath. In the example above you could do the following:

self.blogPosts = [dataDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"feed.entry"];

Notice how the two keys feed and entry are separated by a period. It's the easiest way to traverse nested nodes and get access to a leaf node.

Thank you very much!

please see the comment line '//<-----what goes here?' json linke is here. http://himalayanfood.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json which displays the blog title slightly different way than on the http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/