Get one NSArray

Question

I was wondering how to combine two array\'s into one array.

I want the combined tableView to show the most recent

Answer 1

I suppose that your actual code works. These are steps you could do. I didn't try (don't know if its compiles), but you'll get the whole idea.

• I'll go with:

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableArray *contentArray;

Don't forget to initialize it: contentsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; before doing the WebService requests.

• In the blocks, I'll do:

[contentsArray addObjectsFromArray:mappingResult.array];

• You need to sort them by dates, so since we just need to add a method to sort them, but I don't know how are Feed & Data (objects in the [mappingResult array]), I'll let you do it. But I give you the main idea, since in the comments of the answer of @Wain, you said that the dates were NSString.

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
//Do the dateFormatter settings, you may have to use 2 NSDateFormatters if the format is different for Data & Feed
//The initialization of the dateFormatter is done before the block, because its alloc/init take some time, and you may have to declare it with "__block"
//Since in your edit you do that and it seems it's the same format, just do @property (nonatomic, strong) NSDateFormatter dateFormatter;
NSArray *sortedArray = [contentsArray sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) 
{
    NSDate *aDate, bDate;
    if ([a isKindOfClass:[Feed class]])
        aDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:(Feed *)a.created_time];
    else //if ([a isKindOfClass:[Data class]])
        aDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:(Data *)a.published];
   if ([b isKindOfClass:[Feed class]])
        bDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:(Feed *)b.created_time];
    else //if ([b isKindOfClass:[Data class]])
        bDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:(Data *)b.published];
    return [aDate compare:bDate];
}];

• In the datasource method tableView:numberOfRowsInSection, do return [contentsArray count];

• In the datasource method tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:

if ([[[contentsArray objectAtIndexPath:[indexPath row]] isKindOfClass:[Feed class]])
{
    Feed *feed = [contentsArray objectAtIndexPath:[indexPath row]];
    CellClassFeed *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"APICell1"];
    //Do your thing
}
else //if ([[[contentsArray objectAtIndexPath:[indexPath row]] isKindOfClass:[Data class]])
{
    Data *data = [contentsArray objectAtIndexPath:[indexPath row]];
    CellClassData *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"APICell2"];
    //Do your thing
}