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Parsing Search Result with MGTwitterEngine in Objective C

Answer 1

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I'm not sure what parsing you need to do. You're supposed to be supplying a delegate to the engine (like a callback, but an actual object), which the engine will use to notify you when it has results. The results should be coming back as an NSArray of NSDictionarys, which means you don't have to do any parsing at all.

Dave DeLong 2009-12-05 06:20:10

Ah, got it now! Thanks.

Parimal 2009-12-05 07:29:56

Answer 2

+1 A:

The searchResults variable in your delegate is an array of dictionaries. You just index into that array and then start grabbing values for the keys in the dictionaries. For example

- (void)searchResultsReceived:(NSArray *)searchResults 
                   forRequest:(NSString *)connectionIdentifier
{
    if ([searchResults count] > 0)
    {
        NSDictionary *result = [searchResults objectAtIndex:0];

        NSString *fromUser = [result valueForKey:@"from_user"];
        NSString *fromUserID = [result valueForKey@"from_user_id"];
        // ...
        NSString *text = [result valueForKey@"text"];

        NSLog(@"User %@(%@): %@", fromUser, fromUserID, text);
    }
}

Matt Long 2009-12-05 07:04:02

Thank you! This gives me a way to go on ahead and work on the data. To access the individual strings out of the scope of the delegate function, could I set a return type of Array and return one with just the information I need? Or just return the original array itself to do the extraction elsewhere?Again, thanks!

Parimal 2009-12-05 07:29:25

You can just create an NSArray instance variable (ivar) property and hold onto it, e.g. [self setItems:searchResults]; This would require your instance variable be declared as a property like, @property (assign) NSArray *items; in your .h and then @synthesize items in the .m.

Matt Long 2009-12-05 15:55:54

Oh, excellent! Thank you so much for your help!

Parimal 2009-12-05 16:51:35

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