Objective-C Download PLIST and use within table - ios

Question

I'm fairly new to Objective-C programming. I'm trying to build an app for personal use to view event info which is contained on my web server. I wish for each Event Title string to be shown as a separate row within my UITableView.
I'm using CFPropertyList to create the plist from MySQL. Here's what my plist looks like:
I'm downloading the plist like so:
NSString *stringURL = #"http://www.example.com/events.plist";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:stringURL];
NSData *urlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
if ( urlData )
{
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/%#", documentsDirectory,#"events.plist"];
[urlData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
}
Then this is how I'm trying to load the info into their arrays:
events = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
ID = [events objectForKey:#"Event ID"];
title = [events objectForKey:#"Event Title"];
date = [events objectForKey:#"Event Date"];
price = [events objectForKey:#"Price"];
totalTickets = [events objectForKey:#"Total Tickets"];
ticketsSold = [events objectForKey:#"Tickets Sold"];
ticketsRemaining = [events objectForKey:#"Tickets Remaining"];
postStatus = [events objectForKey:#"Post Status"];
postContent = [events objectForKey:#"Post Content"];
Now here's where I'm having trouble. Now when I'm debugging the number of rows the 'events' dictionary has it returns 0.
Therefore I cannot set the 'numberOfRowsInSection'. Nor does [title objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] work.
I believe the issue lays with how I'm setting up the NSDictionary, but due to my lack of Objective-C and array knowledge, I'm unable to overcome this issue.

Answer 1

Here's your problem:
events = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
Your plist is an array of dictionaries and you're trying to load that array as a dictionary. Try this instead:
events = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
Edit: To extract the titles into an array so you can use them in table cells, do this:
NSMutableArray *titles = [NSMutableArray array];
for (NSDictionary *event in events) {
NSString *title = [event objectForKey:#"Event Title"];
[titles addObject:title];
}