Question

I’m using the XMLReader plugin found here https://github.com/Insert-Witty-Name/XML-to-NSDictionary to convert my XML data into an NS-Dictionary, but I am confused by how the dictionary is being set up. Here is what I am given:

 {
     response =     {
         "@status" = ok;
         authentication =         {
             "@description" = "The username you provided is valid.";
             "@login" = USERNAME;
             "@response" = success;
             "@user_id" = USERID;
         };
     };
 }

I am trying to take the response object and say if key is equal to success then do something, but I’m not sure if this dictionary is even set up correctly.

Answer 1

Despite the weirdness of the @names as keys, it seems valid.

You could easily ask for your element response ( [ objectForKey:@"response"] ), get the [ objectForKey:@"authentication"] and then [ objectForKey:@"@response"] to check [yourString isEqualToString:@"success"].

Edit: Adding example

I’ve recently noticed some ; where commas should have been, but let’s hope that’s just a typo or something like it.

In case you have a doubt, you can always NSLog(@"%@", [yourFirstDictionary allKeys]); to make sure those are valid keys.

Let’s call your first object myDict for the sake of the example.

NSDictionary * response = [myDict objectForKey:@"response"]; // this should have @status and authentication as keys
NSDictionary * authentication = [response objectForKey:@"authentication"];
NSString * innerResponse = [authentication objectForKey:@"@response"];

if ([innerResponse isEqualToString:@"success"]) {
    // your code
}