populating a tableview with data using JSON and AFNetworking NSDictionary

Question

c & ios n00b here,

I have been working on this problem for 3 days. I am worried that there is a fundamental concept that I am missing. I have researched and and

Answer 1

If you're self.beers array is properly populated then I think you are not reloading the tableview.

Add this line after self.beers=[[NSArray alloc]initWithArray:tempArray];

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                [self.tableView reloadData]
            });

It will reload the tableview after you receive all the data. If that doesn't work then NSLog(@"%@",self.beers); to make sure that self. beers is populated.

I didn't realize it is giving you an error before actually populating the tableView. I think the problem is that the name is returning a NSString and not an NSArray. Actually the responseObject contains array of dictionaries so that when you iterate through the array you get a dictionary for each beer. This way you can just access the beer name with objectForKey

Beer *newBeer=[[Beer alloc]initWithName:[oneDictionary objectForKey@"name"]];

to retrieve the name of the beer.

Let me know if it works out.