Adding sections to a plist for Xcode for use in Cocoa touch Table View
- by Steve
I am a beginning iPhone SDK programmer. I built a simple practice application I am trying to use to learn more about table views. It's an app that loads football teams from a plist and displays them in a table view with their stadium name and logo. Tapping the team goes to a detail view for that team.
I am trying to understand how to add sections to this, so that I might have a couple of teams in one section and others in another section, etc.
I would assume I need to both re-structure my plist and change the code to read arrays from the different levels of the plist?
To begin, I had a plist with the root array consisting of 3 dictionaries, one for each team. Each dictionary had 3 keys, "name" "stadium" and "logo". This works fine. I am loading it via:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"teams" ofType:@"plist"];
teams = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
and then
// Configure the cell.
NSDictionary *team = [teams objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.textLabel.text = [team objectForKey:@"name"];
NSString *imgPath = [team valueForKey:@"logo"];
cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:imgPath];
cell.detailTextLabel.text =[team objectForKey:@"stadium"];
return cell;
No problem. But now I wanted the sections, so I changed my plist to:
<array>
<dict>
<key>teams 1</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Packers</string>
<key>stadium</key>
<string>Lambeau Field</string>
<key>logo</key>
<string>packers.jpg</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Jets</string>
<key>stadium</key>
<string>Giants Stadium</string>
<key>logo</key>
<string>jets_logo.jpg</string>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>teams 2</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Cincinnati Bengals</string>
<key>stadium</key>
<string>Paul Brown Stadium</string>
<key>logo</key>
<string>bengals.jpg</string>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
And I am unsure how to modify the viewDidLoad to assign the sections to one NSArray and the teams "level" to another array.
