Fetch JSON Response Into Propertylist For UITableview - ios

Question

I am trying to store JSON response Into propertylist like below Image of plist structured.
My Response:
{
"response": {
"count": "1000",
"girls": {},
"boys": {
"0": {
"name": "sam"
},
"1": {
"name": "jhon"
},
"2": {
"name": "keen"
},
"3": {
"name": "man"
},
"4": {
"name": "blue"
}
}
}
}
Need to Achieve :
FYI: After stored all the Information's I need to get Girls array data and Boys array data based on segment button selection It should reload the data quickly on tableview.
Needed Help :
How to fetch all the JSON data like my posted Image plist structure?
How to get and load It Into UItableview NSMutableArray?

Answer 1

First step:
Convert JSON string to dictionary
NSError *jsonError;
NSData *objectData = [strJSON dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:objectData
options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers
error:&jsonError];
Second Step:
Make a dictionary for plist
NSMutableDictionary * tempDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[tempDict setObject:[[json objectForKey:#"response"] objectForKey:#"girls"] forKey:#"girls"];
[tempDict setObject:[[json objectForKey:#"response"] objectForKey:#"boys"] forKey:#"boys"];
Last Step:
Write this dictionary to pList file
NSError *error;
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *plistPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"myPlistFile.plist"];
[tempDict writeToFile:plistPath atomically: YES];
EDIT : If you dont want to write this dict to plist file, ignore last step.
Just use your tempDict as tableView dataSource.
Number of sections : [[tempDict allKeys] count]
Number of rows in section :
if (indexPath.section == 0)
{
return [[tempDict objectForKey:#"girls"] allKeys];
}
else
{
return [[tempDict objectForKey:#"boys"] allKeys];
}
for cell configuration,
if (indexPath.section == 0)
{
lblTitle.text = [[[tempDict objectForKey:#"girls"] objectForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",indexPath.row] objectForKey:#"name"];
}
else
{
lblTitle.text = [[[tempDict objectForKey:#"boys"] objectForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",indexPath.row] objectForKey:#"name"];
}
Hope this will help you....

Answer 2

See the below worked out example
NSDictionary *dictionary = #{#"response": #{
#"count": #"1000",
#"girls": #{},
#"boys": #{
#"0": #{#"name": #"sam"},
#"1": #{#"name": #"jhon"},
#"2": #{#"name": #"keen"},
#"3": #{#"name": #"man"}
}
}
};
//return boys count while loading boys.
return [[[dictionary valueForKey:#"response"] valueForKey:#"boys"] allKeys].count;
//return girls count while loading boys.
return [[[dictionary valueForKey:#"response"] valueForKey:#"girls"] allKeys].count;
//Use this in cell for indexpath for row.
NSDictionary *boys = [[dictionary valueForKey:#"response"] valueForKey:#"boys"];
NSString *nameString = [[boys valueForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%ld",(long)indexPath.row]] valueForKey:#"name"];
//To get all name of boys at once
NSArray *boysName = [boys valueForKeyPath:#"name"];