iOS: Looping json items to SESpringboard - ios

Question

So! I have an NSDictionary that's pulling json out of my database just fine. I also have a mutable array that creates items for my beautiful SESpringboard view. The problem is that, initially, I only had a few items, so I was creating each item manually. But now that I have THOUSANDS of items I want to do something like a "while" loop in php that would just keep creating items until it goes through the whole table.
Here's the code I've got:
Goods *g = [[Goods alloc] init];
g.GID = [dict objectForKey:#"id"];
g.GName = [dict objectForKey:#"name"];
NSLog(#"bk:%#",g.GName);
g.GImg = [dict objectForKey:#"image"];
g.GDesc = [dict objectForKey:#"description"];
NSMutableArray *items = [NSMutableArray array];
[items addObject:[SEMenuItem initWithTitle:g.GName imageName:g.GImg viewController:self removable:NO]];
SESpringBoard *thunderboard = [SESpringBoard initWithTitle:#"Boom" items:items launcherImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"thor.png"]];
This works absolutely fine… except that what it does is place all the names and all the images one on top of another instead of creating a new item for each result.
If this were php I'd do something like "g.items" and it would just create a new item for each "g" but I'm not sure what to do here. Any help would be appreciated. (I googled but couldn't find anything like this for SESpringBoard items…)

Answer 1

Assuming you parse your json in a variable named allGoods, and that it's an array containing dictionaries representing your "Goods" objects.
You can do this:
NSMutableArray *items = [NSMutableArray array];
for (NSDictionary *dictionary in allGoods) {
[items addObject:[SEMenuItem initWithTitle:[dictionary objectForKey:#"name"] imageName:[dictionary objectForKey:#"image"] viewController:self removable:NO]];
}
SESpringBoard *thunderboard = [SESpringBoard initWithTitle:#"Boom" items:items launcherImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"thor.png"]];
I removed your usage of "Goods *g", as it looks like you don't need to keep a reference to such an object.
EDIT: here is the 5 items limit you requested
The "MIN" in the for loop is just in case allGoods contains less than 5 items.
for (int i = 0; i < MIN(5, allGoods.count); i++) {
NSDictionary *dictionary = [allGoods objectAtIndex:i];
[items addObject:[SEMenuItem initWithTitle:[dictionary objectForKey:#"name"] imageName:[dictionary objectForKey:#"image"] viewController:self removable:NO]];
}
SESpringBoard *thunderboard = [SESpringBoard initWithTitle:#"Boom" items:items launcherImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"thor.png"]];