Iterate through an NSMutableArray of Objects - objective-c

Question

I have a class with the following property and method:
header file below - note I did not copy/paste all code (only pertinant information):
#interface SQLiteDB : NSObject
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableArray *allAccountsArray;
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *accountId, *accountName, *accountDescription, *accountTags, *accountPhoto, *accountCreationDate;
+(id) populateAccountObjectWithId:(NSString *)id andName:(NSString *)name andDescription:(NSString *)description andTags:(NSString *)tags andPhoto:(NSString *)photo andCreationDate:(NSString *)creationDate;
#end
implementation file below - note I did not copy/paste all code (only pertinant information):
+(id) populateAccountObjectWithId:(NSString *)id andName:(NSString *)name andDescription:(NSString *)description andTags:(NSString *)tags andPhoto:(NSString *)photo andCreationDate:(NSString *)creationDate
{
SQLiteDB *mySQLiteDB = [[self alloc] init];
mySQLiteDB.accountId = id;
mySQLiteDB.accountName = name;
mySQLiteDB.accountDescription = description;
mySQLiteDB.accountTags = tags;
mySQLiteDB.accountPhoto = photo;
mySQLiteDB.accountCreationDate = creationDate;
return mySQLiteDB;
}
Then, another method in the implementation file fetches all accounts from the SQLite database:
-(id) fetchAccountList
{
// do some database stuff here
// create prepared statement, open database, etc...
allAccountsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
while(sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW)
{
NSString *thisAccountId = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement,0)];
NSString *thisAccountName = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 1)];
NSString *thisAccountDescription = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 2)];
NSString *thisAccountTags = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 3)];
NSString *thisAccountPhoto = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 4)];
NSString *thisAccountCreationDate = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String:(const char *) sqlite3_column_text(statement, 5)];
[allAccountsArray addObject:[SQLiteDB populateAccountObjectWithId:thisAccountId andName:thisAccountName andDescription:thisAccountDescription andTags:thisAccountTags andPhoto:thisAccountPhoto andCreationDate:thisAccountCreationDate]];
}
// error handling code, etc.
// finalize, & close code here...
return allAccountsArray;
}
Now finally the question. In other classes I want to do stuff with the array of objects that this returns. For instance I would do this in a TableVeiw controller:
-(void)loadView
{
[super loadView];
mySQLiteDB = [[SQLiteDB alloc] init];
allAccountsArray = [mySQLiteDB fetchAccountList];
}
I would use this later to for instance populate the table list in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method. Perhaps each cell of the table would contain the accountName, accountDescription, and accountCreationDate. I do not however know how to access that name, desc, date from within the array of objects...
This obviously produces an error:
cell.textLabel.text = [allAccountsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
because the object at "row" is an "object" containing name, desc, date, etc...
So Stackoverflow, I ask you... How do I accomplish getting the object variables at each element of the array?

Answer 1

You should be able to do something as simple as this:
SqliteDB *mySqliteDB = (SQliteDB *)[allAccountsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSString *myText = mySqliteDB.thisAccountID;
myText = [myText stringByAppendingString:mySqliteDB.thisAccountName];
.... etc.
cell.textLabel.text = myText;

Answer 2

I think enumerateObjects:usingBlock: is what you want for iterating, i.e. enumerating, objects. You might have missed it because it's in the superclass.