xcode json tableview sections - json

I am new to xcode and I seem to be stuck at trying to create a tableview with sections.
My code below creates the header however I cannot seem to display the rows that belong to the section. I'm sure it has to do with the multidimensional array. I say this because "dobSection" value is "results" when I suppose it should display the dates under "DOB".
I have spent hours trying many different ways to get this to work..... eh! No luck.
The Json is somewhat like this:
{"results":
[{"name":"joe","surname":"blow","DOB":"1990-01-01"},
{"name":"jane","surname":"doe","DOB":"1990-01-01"},
{"name":"john","surname":"doe","DOB":"1995-06-06"}]
}
and the code
NSMutableArray *jsonResults;
- (void)fetchedData:(NSData *)responseData {
NSError* error;
NSDictionary* json = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:responseData
options:kNilOptions
error:&error];
jsonResults = [json objectForKey:#"results"];
self.dob = json;
self.keys = [jsonResults valueForKey:#"DOB"];
[self.tableView reloadData];
}
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
// Return the number of sections.
return [keys count];
//return 1;
}
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
// Return the number of rows in the section.
// NSString *key = [keys objectAtIndex:section];
NSString *key = [keys objectAtIndex:section];
NSArray *dobSection = [dob objectForKey:key];
return [dobSection count];
}
in addition by replacing this:
NSArray *dobSection = [dob objectForKey:key];
with
NSArray *dobSection=[[games objectForKey:#"results"]valueForKey:#"dob"];
I get all rows.
I cannot get them to group by DOB
My code above may be flawed however I would love some input on how to get this right.
Thank you

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Is there something similar to Objective-C?
I know that it is possible to enumerate properties for Objective-C classes, and it seems reasonable that someone would have used that capability to create a JSON "bean mapper", but Google searching yielded no results for me, except this blog post on Apple's Swift website showing how to manually deserialize JSON to "model objects" and why they think that doing this automatically (DRYing the code) is a bad idea (*).
*) The reasoning is basically, that not needing to write a lot of boilerplate (their sample implementation is 36 LoC to parse 3 properties) is not a significant improvement and building a couple of optional callbacks to allow data validation is hard. I obviously disagree with all of this.
Here is my solution, which is not based on a library - as I couldn't find any - but instead using the Foundation and Objective-C runtime methods - as discussed in the comments above:
#import <objc/runtime.h>
NSArray<NSString*>* classPropertyList(id instance) {
NSMutableArray* propList = [NSMutableArray array];
unsigned int numProps = 0;
objc_property_t* props = class_copyPropertyList(object_getClass(instance), &numProps);
for (int i = 0; i < numProps; i++)
[propList addObject:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:property_getName(props[i])]];
free(props);
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}
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objc_property_t prop = class_getProperty(clazz, [propertyName UTF8String]);
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if ([(propAttrs[0]) hasPrefix:#"T#\""])
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}
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- (NSData*)toJSON {
return [self toJSON:self withNullValues:YES];
}
- (NSString*)toJSONString {
return [self toJSONString:self withNullValues:YES];
}
- (NSData*)toJSON:_ withNullValues:(bool)nullables {
NSError* error;
NSDictionary* dic = [self toDictionary:self withNullValues:nullables];
NSData* json = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:dic options:0 error:&error];
if (!json) {
NSLog(#"Error encoding DeviceConfigurationRequest: %#", error);
return nil;
}
return json;
}
- (NSString*) toJSONString:_ withNullValues:(bool)nullables {
NSData* json = [self toJSON:self withNullValues:nullables];
return [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:[json bytes] length:[json length] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}
- (NSDictionary*)toDictionary:_ withNullValues:(bool)nullables {
NSMutableDictionary* dic = [NSMutableDictionary new];
for (id propName in classPropertyList(self)) {
id val = [self valueForKey:propName];
if (!nullables && (val == nil || val == NSNull.null))
continue;
if ([val respondsToSelector:#selector(toDictionary:withNullValues:)])
val = [val toDictionary:val withNullValues:nullables];
[dic setObject:(val == nil ? NSNull.null : val) forKey:propName];
}
return dic;
}
- (instancetype)initWithJSONString:(NSString*)json {
return [self initWithJSON:[json dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
}
- (instancetype)initWithJSON:(NSData*)json {
NSError* error;
if (json == nil)
return nil;
NSDictionary* dataValues = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:json options:0 error:&error];
if (!dataValues) {
NSLog(#"Error parsing invalid JSON for %#: %#", NSStringFromClass(object_getClass(self)), error);
return nil;
}
return [self initWithDictionary:dataValues];
}
- (instancetype)initWithDictionary:(NSDictionary*)dataValues {
if (dataValues == nil)
return nil;
if (self = [super init])
for (id key in dataValues) {
id val = [dataValues objectForKey:key];
if (![self respondsToSelector:NSSelectorFromString(key)])
continue;
NSString* typeName = typeOfProperty([self class], key);
if ([val isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]) { // translate NSNull values to something useful, if we can
if (typeName == nil)
continue; // don't try to set nil to non-pointer fields
val = nil;
} else if ([val isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]] && typeName != nil)
val = [[NSClassFromString(typeName) alloc] initWithDictionary:val];
[self setValue:val forKey:key];
}
return self;
}
#end
It is then easy to create custom model objects by inheriting from JSONMarshallable, like so:
model.h:
#import "JSONMarshallable.h"
#interface MyModel : JSONMarshallable
#property NSString* stringValue;
#property NSNumber* numericValue;
#property bool boolValue;
#end
model.m:
#implementation MyModel
#end
SomeThingElse.m:
// ...
NSData* someJson;
MyModel* obj = [[MyModel alloc] initWithJSON:someJson];
NSString* jsonObj = [obj toJSONString:nil withNullValues:NO];
Critics are welcome! (I'm not very good at Objective C and probably made a lot of faux pas 🤭)
Issues:
I can handle nullable numbers with NSNumber* (though C primitives work fine for non-nullable numbers), but I don't know how to represent nullable booleans - i.e. a field that is optional and not encoded when using withNullValues:NO.
Sending fields for which there are no properties (for example, the server I work with sends values in both snake-case and underscrore-case to make it easy to parse) throws exception. (solved by using respondsToSelector: and setValue: instead of setValuesForKeysWithDictionary:).
Trying to set nil values to primitive-typed fields causes exceptions. (solved by checking for property type and NSNull).
Doesn't work at all for nesting objects - i.e. a custom model object with properties that are also custom model objects. (solved by checking for property types and recursing encoding/decoding).
Probably doesn't handle arrays well - I have yet to need those in my software, so I haven't implemented proper support (though I verified that encoding simple string arrays works well).

Objective C String to JSON formatting

Quick disclaimer. I've programmed Java for years but this is the first Objective C I've ever written.
I've written some code which almost unfortunately works but frankly hurts my eyes with the number of lines of code and quality. Basically looking for the right way to convert the original string:
<TUHandle 0x280479f50 type=PhoneNumber, value=07700000000, normalizedValue=(null), isoCountryCode=(null)>
Into JSON (ignoring the TUHandle 0x280479f50) part which I don't need:
{"value": "07700000000",
"normalizedValue": "(null)",
"type": "PhoneNumber",
"isoCountryCode": "(null)"}
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It assumes that only parts of the input string that look like "x=y" go into the json, and cuts off the last character from y's value, since that's either a "," or the trailing ">".
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NSString* input = #"<TUHandle 0x280479f50 type=PhoneNumber, value=07700000000, normalizedValue=(null), isoCountryCode=(null)>";
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NSArray* tokens = [input componentsSeparatedByString:#" "];
for (NSString* token in tokens) {
NSArray<NSString*>* parts = [token componentsSeparatedByString:#"="];
if (parts.count != 2) {
continue;
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NSString* value = parts[1];
NSUInteger index = value.length - 1;
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}
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Hi I am using NSURLSession to fetch data from a server and I am using the following code for that purpose.
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xcode loop to display only one of each state from a list of address

I have a nsmutable array that returns a companies address. I currently having the array returning all the States. But I would like it to only return one of each State.
Current Example: Ca. Wa. Wa. Mi. Ca. And when I select a state I need to take the info to the next page. Here is my code so far.
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Company 1, CA -> [CA]
Company 2, WA -> [WA]
Company 3, CA -> [CA]
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NSDictionary
key1 (CA)
Company 1
Company 3
key2 (WA)
Company 2
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Get URL data
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Hope that helps.

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