UITableView: scroll to load more Youtube items - ios

Question

I'm fetching videos from Youtube channel, I'm able to display 10 videos when APP is starting.
I would like to use the following trick (using pagetoken ; Retrieve all videos from youtube playlist using youtube v3 API) to display more videos.
The idea is to scroll down to fetch the next videos, by using willDisplayCell method.
ViewController:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.model.delegate = self
model.getFeedVideo()
self.tableView.dataSource = self
self.tableView.delegate = self
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
if !loadingData && indexPath.row == 10 - 1 {
model.getFeedVideo()
print("loading more ...")
}
}
How to use pageToken from ViewController whereas I get the token
from VideoModel class?
How to automatically increment the "10" for
indexPath attribute? Is it possible to get the current number of displayed
cell?
VideoModel:
protocol VideoModelDelegate {
func dataReady()
}
class VideoModel: NSObject {
func getFeedVideo() {
var nextToken:String
nextToken = "XXXXXX"
// Fetch the videos dynamically via the Youtube Data API
Alamofire.request(.GET, "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems", parameters: ["part":"snippet", "playlistId":PLAYLIST_ID, "key":API_KEY, "maxResults":10, "pageToken":nextToken], encoding: ParameterEncoding.URL, headers: nil).responseJSON { (response) -> Void in
if let JSON = response.result.value {
nextToken = JSON["nextPageToken"] as! String
print(nextToken)
var arrayOfVideos = [Video]()
for video in JSON["items"] as! NSArray {
// Creating video object...
// Removed to make it clearer
}
self.videoArray = arrayOfVideos
if self.delegate != nil {
self.delegate?.dataReady()
}
}
}
}
Do I need to add a return value or should I create another method to get the pageToken? Please, suggest.

Answer 1

I will give you a general idea on how to accomplish it.
First: Check if user has scrolled to the last element with if !loadingData && indexPath.row == self.videos.count - 1
Second(edit):
//VideoModel.swift
if self.delegate != nil {
//Pass fetched videos and token to the delegate method.
self.delegate?.dataReady(self.videoArray, nextToken)
}
Now, few changes in delegate method:
//ViewController.swift
func dataReady(Array->Videos,String->Token) {
//Define a variable globally and assign received token for later use
tokenGlobal = Token
//add received array of videos to the current array of videos
[self.videos addObjectsFromArray:Videos];
//Here are two options to populate new videos,
//First, Reload whole table view, not a recommended approach, since it will take much more time to load
self.tableView.reloadData()
//Second, add cells to the existing tableView, instead of loading whole table it will added new cells according to the newly added videos into the array.
}
Now when user reaches the end of tableView, pass the token we have saved in global variable like this:
if !loadingData && indexPath.row == self.videos - 1 {
model.getFeedVideo(tokenGlobal)
print("loading more ...")
}
Now, use this tokenGlobal to fetch more videos using 'getFeedVideo' Method.
Look for SO to find out how to add new cells to table view. But for testing you can proceed with reloadData.
P.S: I don't know the Swift syntax. :)