iPhone UITableView populateing from connectionDidFinishLoading

Answer 1

1. Get rid of the [connection release] in the 2nd line. The connection object comes in autoreleased, so this could cause crashes.
2. It looks like you've got a property named tableArray? If so, you're redeclaring the name in this method (you should have gotten a compiler warning).

On second thought, here's how the 2nd 1/2 of the method should look:

NSMutableArray *tmpArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:nil];

for (NSString *element in dataArray) {
    [tmpArray addObject:[element objectForKey:@"name"]];
}

self.tableArray = tmpArray;
[tmpArray release];

Answer 2

In connectionDidFinishLoading: you use declare tableArray as a local variable. Therefore it will never be assigned to self.tableArray.

Answer 3

Solution:
After taking kubi and st3fan's advice with self.tableArray I found I had to reload the tableView with [self.tableView reloadData];

Answer 4

I had the same problem and I resolved it reloading the table.

I inserted this line at the end of connectionDidFinishLoading function

[self.tableView reloadData];    

and it works.