breaking up a single array object into many objects - objective-c

Question

Apologies if this is a novice question, but I've been struggling to figure this out with no luck. I'm trying to pull a users' twitter timeline using the AFOAuth2Manager framework. Everything makes sense except the returned JSON object is an array and the entire object is one giant object. I obviously want to break it up into different elements and store them in a dictionary, but have not been able to figure it out so far.
This is a VERY partial example of what the array object looks like. The complete object is this with about 20 or so more tweets with this format attached. I will post the entire json object if requested, but it seems pretty pointless to post the entire thing.
Heres my code:
[manager GET:#"/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=jack"
parameters:nil
success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject ) {
self.object = responseObject;
NSLog(#"Success: %#", responseObject);
if ([responseObject isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
NSLog(#"object is a nsarray class");
} else if ([responseObject isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]){
NSLog(#"object is a nsdictionary class");
} else {
NSLog(#"object is a different class");
}
NSArray *response = [NSArray arrayWithObject:responseObject];
NSLog(#"count %ld", [response count]);
NSData *dataFromTwitter = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:self.object];
NSError *parseError = nil;
NSDictionary *responseDict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:dataFromTwitter
options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves | NSJSONReadingMutableContainers|NSJSONReadingAllowFragments
error:&parseError];
NSLog(#"response Dict: %#", responseDict);
NSError *e = nil;
NSArray *jsonArray = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:dataFromTwitter
options:NSJSONReadingAllowFragments
error:&e];
NSLog(#"jsonArray: %#", jsonArray);
NSError *jsonError2 = nil;
id jsonObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:dataFromTwitter
options:NSJSONReadingAllowFragments
error:&jsonError2];
if ([jsonObject isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
NSLog(#"its an array!");
NSArray *jsonArray = (NSArray *)jsonObject;
NSLog(#"jsonArray2 - %#",jsonArray);
}
else {
NSLog(#"its probably a dictionary");
NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = (NSDictionary *)jsonObject;
NSLog(#"jsonDictionary - %#",jsonDictionary);
NSLog(#"error %#", jsonError2);
}
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Failure: %#", error);
}];
{
contributors = "<null>";
coordinates = "<null>";
"created_at" = "Mon Feb 29 01:18:05 +0000 2016";
entities = {
hashtags = (
);
symbols = (
);
urls = (
);
"user_mentions" = (
{
id = 14616957;
"id_str" = 14616957;
indices = (
0,
7
);
name = "Jason Del Rey";
"screen_name" = DelRey;
},
{
id = 19040598;
"id_str" = 19040598;
indices = (
8,
18
);
name = "\U0ca0_\U0ca0";
"screen_name" = MikeIsaac;
},
{
id = 46063;
"id_str" = 46063;
indices = (
19,
30
);
name = "Hunter Walk";
"screen_name" = hunterwalk;
}
);
};
"favorite_count" = 12;
favorited = 0;
geo = "<null>";
id = 704113377920978944;
"id_str" = 704113377920978944;
"in_reply_to_screen_name" = DelRey;
"in_reply_to_status_id" = 704112911116013568;
"in_reply_to_status_id_str" = 704112911116013568;
"in_reply_to_user_id" = 14616957;
"in_reply_to_user_id_str" = 14616957;
"is_quote_status" = 0;
lang = en;
place = "<null>";
"retweet_count" = 0;
retweeted = 0;
source = "Twitter for iPhone";
text = "#DelRey #MikeIsaac #hunterwalk this changes everything";
truncated = 0;
user = {
"contributors_enabled" = 0;
"created_at" = "Tue Mar 21 20:50:14 +0000 2006";
"default_profile" = 0;
"default_profile_image" = 0;
description = "#withMalala!";
entities = {
description = {
urls = (
);
};
};
"favourites_count" = 11433;
"follow_request_sent" = "<null>";
"followers_count" = 3458722;
following = "<null>";
"friends_count" = 1859;
"geo_enabled" = 1;
"has_extended_profile" = 1;
id = 12;
"id_str" = 12;
"is_translation_enabled" = 0;
"is_translator" = 0;
lang = en;
"listed_count" = 25944;
location = "California, USA";
name = Jack;
notifications = "<null>";
"profile_background_color" = EBEBEB;
"profile_background_image_url" = "http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme7/bg.gif";
"profile_background_image_url_https" = "https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme7/bg.gif";
"profile_background_tile" = 0;
"profile_image_url" = "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/668328458519384064/FSAIjKRl_normal.jpg";
"profile_image_url_https" = "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/668328458519384064/FSAIjKRl_normal.jpg";
"profile_link_color" = 990000;
"profile_sidebar_border_color" = DFDFDF;
"profile_sidebar_fill_color" = F3F3F3;
"profile_text_color" = 333333;
"profile_use_background_image" = 1;
protected = 0;
"screen_name" = jack;
"statuses_count" = 19066;
"time_zone" = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)";
url = "<null>";
"utc_offset" = "-28800";
verified = 1;
};
},

Answer 1

You show no code in your question, in a comment you state you have a responseObject but not how you came by it.
The JSON you are getting from somewhere will be text, you may have it as an NSString, NSData, an NSArray whose elements are these, etc.
You need to obtain that text and then parse it as JSON, the NSJSONSerialization class will handle the parsing for you, the first line of its description states:
You use the NSJSONSerialization class to convert JSON to Foundation objects and convert Foundation objects to JSON.
Once you have those Foundation objects - arrays, dictionaries, strings, numbers, etc. you can extract the fields you are interested in.
Once you've written some code to do this if it doesn't work and you are stuck ask a new question showing your code and someone will probably be able to help you further.
HTH