ios - How can I group TableView items from a dictionary in swift?

Question

Lets consider this example:

import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource { 
    @IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!

    var names = ["Vegetables": ["Tomato", "Potato", "Lettuce"], "Fruits": ["Apple", "Banana"]]

        func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell{

        let cell: UITableViewCell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, reuseIdentifier:"test")

    return cell
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int{
    return ???
    }
    func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int{      
    return names.count
    }

    func sectionIndexTitlesForTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> [AnyObject]!{

    return ???
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView,
        titleForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> String?{        
    return ????
    }
}

let's assume that we need that the keys (fruits and vegetables) of the dictionary are the number of sections, plus they will be the titles of the sections. The items of the keys (eg apples and banana) will be the rows of each section. How can I implement this in my code? I know it might be easy but I couldn't figure it out my self.

Answer 1

You can use struct for that and here is example:

import UIKit

class TableViewController: UITableViewController {

    var names = ["Vegetables": ["Tomato", "Potato", "Lettuce"], "Fruits": ["Apple", "Banana"]]

    struct Objects {

        var sectionName : String!
        var sectionObjects : [String]!
    }

    var objectArray = [Objects]()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        for (key, value) in names {
            println("(key) -> (value)")
            objectArray.append(Objects(sectionName: key, sectionObjects: value))
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Table view data source

    override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return objectArray.count
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return objectArray[section].sectionObjects.count
    }


    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! UITableViewCell

        // Configure the cell...
        cell.textLabel?.text = objectArray[indexPath.section].sectionObjects[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, titleForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> String? {

        return objectArray[section].sectionName
    }
}