objectatindex outside of loop? - objective-c

Question

This is a question hard to ask but I'm going to give it a shot anyways. I'm trying to retrieving the contents of an NSDictionary outside of the UITableCell loop. Right now, when I do retrieve its content via:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
everything works fine. But outside of that loop, in a void function of its own, the number retrieved is 0.
- (void)getVideoList{
NSString *ensdsds = #"z9yDgV3ONSU";
for (int i=0; i< [self.youtubePaginator.results count]; i++){
NSDictionary *photoshoots = [self.youtubePaginator.results objectAtIndex:i];
NSString * videoId = photoshoots[#"videoID"];
NSLog(#"Newly %#: ", videoId);
NSString *urlStrings = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id%%2C+snippet%%2C+contentDetails%%2C+statistics&id=%#&key=78587868", videoId];
NSLog(#"Arries %#", urlStrings);
NSURL *urlstats = [NSURL URLWithString:urlStrings];
NSURLRequest *requeststats = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:urlstats];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operationtwo = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:requeststats];
operationtwo.responseSerializer = [AFJSONResponseSerializer serializer];
[operationtwo setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operationtwo, id responseObjected)
{
NSDictionary *itemed = [responseObjected objectForKey:#"items"];
for (NSDictionary *itemest in itemed )
{
YouTubeVideo *youTubeVideo = [[YouTubeVideo alloc] init];
NSDictionary* stats = [itemest objectForKey:#"statistics"];
youTubeVideo.likesCount = [stats objectForKey:#"likeCount"];
youTubeVideo.viewsCount = [stats objectForKey:#"viewCount"];
NSDictionary* channelInfo = [itemest objectForKey:#"snippet"];
youTubeVideo.channelInfo = [channelInfo objectForKey:#"channelId"];
youTubeVideo.videoUploader = [channelInfo objectForKey:#"channelTitle"];
NSLog(#"True To: %#", youTubeVideo.videoUploader);
[self.thunder addObject:youTubeVideo];
}} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error)
{
NSLog(#"Error loading %#", error);
}];
[operationtwo start]; }
}
The above code returns nothing. How do I incorporate NSIndexPath in the void function and still be able to call [self getVideoList]; in viewDidLoad.
Hope that makes sense? :/

Answer 1

You can get the imageURL in getVideoList by passing NSIndexPath as a parameter , you just need to create a global NSString object if you want to access it globally or you can return extracted imageURL as a return value.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSString * imageURL = [self getVideoList:indexPath];
// Write your code to perform operation with the image URL.
}
Here is the getVideoList method
- (NSString *)getVideoList:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
NSDictionary *photoshoots = [self.youtubePaginator.results objectAtIndex:indexPath.Row];
NSString * imageURL = photoshoots[#"avatar_url"];
NSLog(#"Newly %#: ", imageURL);
NSLog(#"To find us: [%d]:%#",i,self.youtubePaginator.results[i]);
return imageURL;
}
You can update the code as per your requirement.