Question

I am a new programmer. I get the following response from server. How can i get the value of 0 index “Mile High Motors of Butte” and “Mile High Motors of Dillion” from following

Thanks

{
dealer =     (
            {
        0 = "Mile High Motors of Butte";
        1 = "3883 Harrison";
        2 = Butte;
        3 = 59701;
        4 = MT;
        5 = "http://www.buttesmilehighchryslerjeepdodge.com";
        6 = 2;
        7 = 0;
        address = "3883 Harrison";
        city = Butte;
        distance = 0;
        id = 2;
        name = "Mile High Motors of Butte";
        state = MT;
        url = "http://www.buttesmilehighchryslerjeepdodge.com";
        zip = 59701;
    },

           {
        0 = "Mile High Motors of Dillon";
        1 = "790 N Montana St";
        2 = Dillon;
        3 = 59725;
        4 = Montana;
        5 = "http://www.MileHighDillon.com";
        6 = 13;
        7 = "60.1235269593172";
        address = "790 N Montana St";
        city = Dillon;
        distance = "60.1235269593172";
        id = 13;
        name = "Mile High Motors of Dillon";
        state = Montana;
        url = "http://www.MileHighDillon.com";
        zip = 59725;
    }
);
success = 1;
}

Answer 1

Okay let’s see your structure (assuming that you have already deserialized your JSON string).
You have an NSDictionary with two keys (dealer & success). Now dealer key is an NSArray with two NSDictionaries. So based on that we could do:

NSDictionary *myJson; // Assuming that this is what you have posted

NSArray *dealers = [myJson valueForKey:@"dealer"];

// Now just grab whatever you need

NSString *dealerOne = [[dealers objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:@"0"]; //Mile High Motors of Butte
NSString *dealerTwo = [[dealers objectAtIndex:1] valueForKey:@"0"]; //Mile High Motors of Dillon

Or you could just iterate your dealers array like this:

for (NSDictionary *dealer in dealers)
{
  NSString *dealerName = [dealer valueForKey:@"0"];
  // Do something useful
}