How to get responseObject into cells in UITableView - objective-c

Question

I'm making an 'Add Friend' function, where it's possible to search on a username. I have a responeObject that contains an array of users. I only want to get the #"name" object for all the users and then list them in the TableView. If I search on "e" i get 3 results:
responseObject: (
{
id = 1;
isUsersAccount = 0;
name = Eshixf;
},
{
id = 3;
isUsersAccount = 0;
name = Neigstal;
},
{
id = 4;
isUsersAccount = 0;
name = Howie;
})
How can I get out all 3 names in 3 different cells?
And why does I get an error when I running the code with this line inside?:
NSDictionary *nameDict = [[friendRow objectAtIndex:0]objectForKey:#"name"];
It gives me this error:
-[__NSCFArray objectForKey:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7faec35f4d40
Thank you!

Answer 1

you can get all names with simple iteration over response.
NSArray *response = friendRow[0]; // this is result dictionaries in an array. actually it is your responseObject.
//NSMutableArray *names = [NSMutableArray new];
names = [NSMutableArray new];//if declared outside the method, use this array as a dataSource for tableView.
for(NSDictionary *dict in response)
{
[names addObject:dict[#"name"]];
}
NSLog("names %#", names);
//refresh your tableview;
[yourTableView reloadData];
EDIT for TableView:
create names in interface as
NSMutableArray *names;
in delegate method:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
[cell.textLabel setText:names[indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}
with this method, tableview will know how many cells it needs.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
// Return the number of rows in the section.
return [names count];
}