I am a beginner with swift and parse, but I am to make an App in which I have to retrieve a user's First Name and post it in a tableView. The thing is that I can't find a way to retrieve the user's First Name with only the user's objectId. I found this on the website during my research but it does not seemed to be what I want to do. I have also tried to do :
userNameLabel.text = (interest.user!["FirstName"] as! String)
I get the error : 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Key "FirstName" has no data. Call fetchIfNeeded before getting its value.'
I guess the problem is because it thinks it is a PFObject and therefore does not see it as a String (??)
Anyway does someone have an idea on how I can retrieve my user ("interest.user") First Name ?
Thank you for your time.
Since your user object is a pointer, when you run your query you need to tell Parse to include any extra information that's not part of that class. In this case, since it's a pointer, you need to do query.includeKey("user") or whatever the name of the column is that points to your user class.
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Firebase Database
I tried using this bit of code but it doesn't seem to work. I take the name the user selects and store it in nameList.
Lets say I store Blake Wodruff in nameList[0].
How do I remove only that name?
var nameList = [String](repeating: "", count:100)
func remove() {
print(nameList[countAddNames])
let usernameRef = Database.database().reference().child("Candidate 1").child("alton").child(nameList[countAddNames]);
usernameRef.removeValue();
}
To write to or delete a node, you must specify its entire path. So to delete node 0 from your JSON, you'd do:
let usernameRef = Database.database().reference().child("Candidate 1").child("alton").child("0");
usernameRef.removeValue();
Or a bit shorter:
let usernameRef = Database.database().reference().child("Candidate 1/alton/0");
usernameRef.removeValue();
If you only know the name of the user you want to remove, you'll need to first look up its index/full path before you can remove it. If you have the data in your application already, you can do it in that code. Otherwise you may have to use a database query (specifically .queryOrderedByValue and .queryEqualToValue) to determine where the value exists in the database.
Also see: Delete a specific child node in Firebase swift
Once you remove a value from your JSON structure, Firebase may no longer recognize it as an array. For this reason it is highly recommended to not use arrays for the structure that you have. In fact, I'd model your data as a set, which in JSON would look like:
"alton": {
"Jake Jugg": true,
"Blake Wodruff": true,
"Alissa Sanchez": true
}
This would automatically:
Prevent duplicates, as each name can by definition only appear once.
Make removing a candidate by their name as easy as Database.database().reference().child("Candidate 1/alton/Jake Jugg").removeValue()
For more on this, also see my answer to Firebase query if child of child contains a value
I am trying to update a string with firebase swift but I am getting an error that I do not know how to get rid of.
I have this code part that is getting an error:
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/\(dataPathen)/likesForPost").updateChildValues("likesForPost": "7")
The error I am getting is expected "," seperator just before the :. I am using dbRef in another code part so I know i works and the dataPathen is being printed just before the above code part, so that is working too.
Can anyone help me with this bug?
Just change
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/\(dataPathen)/likesForPost").updateChildValues("likesForPost": "7")
To
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/\(dataPathen)/likesForPost").updateChildValues(["likesForPost": "7"])
And if you are only looking for incrementing a particular value at a specific node you might wanna check my answer's :- https://stackoverflow.com/a/39465788/6297658, https://stackoverflow.com/a/39471374/6297658
PS Prefer runTransactionBlock: to update properties like likeForPosts as there might be a moment when two users try to like same post at the same moment (Highly Unlikely, but still a possibility...),using updateChildValues might end up just updating like only from one user. But runTransactionBlock: keep firing until the changes of that thread have been committed to the node
updateChildValues accepts [AnyHashable:Any] dictionary:
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/\(dataPathen)/likesForPost")
.updateChildValues(["likesForPost": "7"])
Whenever updating values at any reference in Firebase Database, you need to pass a dictionary parameter for updateChildValues method as [AnyHashable: Any] for your path reference. So just update your code of line as below:
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/(dataPathen)/likesForPost").updateChildValues("likesForPost": "7")
Also if you need to update more than 1 key-value pairs then you can pass those key-value pairs inside dictionary by seperating using comma as below:
self.dbRef.child("feed-items/(dataPathen)/likesForPost").updateChildValues(["likesForPost": "7", "otherKey": "OtherKeyValue"])
So I am really new to parse and I have no idea how to store a famous quote and it's own author, so then I can use that information in my iOS app made with swift.
I have imported all the frameworks in order to make parse work but I don't know to to store that quotes with the authors and then retrieve the information to display the quote in a label and the author in another label. Please don't be rude, I don't get who to make this work.
So if you want to save a text and retrieve to Parse
let's say you want to save some text into a class called Data
Save
var data = "Swift is nice"
var object = PFObject(className:"Data")
object["message"] = data
object.saveInBackground()
So I use the saveInBackground method just for simplicity however if you should other saveInBackground method where you could check if there is no error while you are saving into Parse.
Retrieve
#IBOutlet weak var textlabel:UILabel!
var query = PFQuery(className:"Data")
query.getFirstObjectInBackgroundWithBlock({ (objects:PFObject?, error:NSError?) -> Void in
if error == nil {
let retrieveData = objects?.objectForKey("message") as! String
//so lets say you had a UILAbel
self.textlabel.text = retrieveData
}
})
I used the getFirstObjectInBackgroundWithBlock method because I assume that I have at least one object save in Parse. So if you are retrieve a lot of data you could findObjects method .
Hope that helps :)
To answer your comment on Lamars's fine answer:
Create a class ("Add class") "Quotes" in Parse, if you haven't already. Create a column in that class named "Quote", set it's type to String. Click "Add Row" and you will get a new row in your table. Double Click it's field and you can write your quote there.
This is me editing the usernameField in my Parse Class:
You could have another column named "Author" of type String, and just do the same thing, but if your app gets more advanced and you would like to display all the quotes from a specific author, you should add another class, named "Author". Add a column named "Name", double click and submit your name.
In your "Quotes" class, add a column named "Author", type Pointer, and make it point to your Author Class. Then copy the correct objectId from Pointer (let's sat Steve Jobs has objectId "12345678") and paste it to the "Author" column in Quotes. Now, if there's another quote by Steve Jobs, you can re-use that objectId, not having to store the name "Steve Jobs" more than once.
I understand you're new to Parse.com and maybe databases as well, but this way of creating relations is very good knowledge, if you want to design stuff in the future.
Parse has a great documentation, in Obj-C and Swift, check it out:
https://www.parse.com/docs/ios/guide
According to the SSO documentation for IA these attributes should be available (I'm guessing a bit at the attributes URI):
First Name (http://axschema.org/namePerson/first)
Last Name (http://axschema.org/namePerson/last)
Realm Id (http://axschema.org/intuit/realmId)
Reviewing the query string passed during stage 3 of the open id request, here are the attributes present:
openid.alias3.type.alias1 => http://axschema.org/namePerson
openid.alias3.value.alias1 => Full Name
openid.alias3.type.alias2 => http://axschema.org/contact/email
openid.alias3.value.alias2 => email#test.com
Bug, error in the documentation, or loose nut behind the keyboard?
Two problems here, the first problem is in my haste of cut and paste coding I was only requesting the full name and email. I revised the code to request first name, last name, and realm id. Now first name and last name come through fine. However, it took a big of poking around to get to the bottom of the realm id issue. First, the documentation did not give a clear answer on the attribute uri; however, I was able to find a clear answer on this thread https://idnforums.intuit.com/textthread.aspx?catid=69&threadid=16954. Paul Jackson gives a clear idea what is going on here:
The attribute for realm id is http://axschema.org/intuit/realmId
Sometimes the attribute does not come through
I put together a technique based on his suggestion in this thread. Basically, if the realm id does not come through then I'll parse it from the referring url which has it in the query string as realmId. Clearly, this is brittle but provides a "working" solution for now.
Here is a code snippet you can use during stage 3 of the handshake.
_realmId = fetch.GetAttributeValue(OpenId.IntuitWellKnownRealmId);
if (_realmId == null && httpRequest.UrlReferrer != null)
{
var url = httpRequest.UrlReferrer.ToString();
var i = url.IndexOf('?');
if (i != -1)
{
var querystring = url.Substring(i);
_realmId = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring)["realmId"];
}
}
I take zero credit for this solution, Paul already had it figured out. Just posting here to help anyone searching on this problem.
I'm using a plugin and want to perform an action based on the records statuscode value. I've seen online that you can use entity.FormattedValues["statuscode"] to get values from option sets but when try it I get an error saying "The given key was not present in the dictionary".
I know this can happen when the plugin cant find the change for the field you're looking for, but i've already checked that this does exist using entity.Contains("statuscode") and it passes by that fine but still hits this error.
Can anyone help me figure out why its failing?
Thanks
I've not seen the entity.FormattedValues before.
I usually use the entity.Attributes, e.g. entity.Attributes["statuscode"].
MSDN
Edit
Crm wraps many of the values in objects which hold additional information, in this case statuscode uses the OptionSetValue, so to get the value you need to:
((OptionSetValue)entity.Attributes["statuscode"]).Value
This will return a number, as this is the underlying value in Crm.
If you open up the customisation options in Crm, you will usually (some system fields are locked down) be able to see the label and value for each option.
If you need the label, you could either do some hardcoding based on the information in Crm.
Or you could retrieve it from the metadata services as described here.
To avoid your error, you need to check the collection you wish to use (rather than the Attributes collection):
if (entity.FormattedValues.Contains("statuscode")){
var myStatusCode = entity.FormattedValues["statuscode"];
}
However although the SDK fails to confirm this, I suspect that FormattedValues are only ever present for numeric or currency attributes. (Part-speculation on my part though).
entity.FormattedValues work only for string display value.
For example you have an optionset with display names as 1, 2, 3,
The above statement do not recognize these values because those are integers. If You have seen the exact defintion of formatted values in the below link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/microsoft.xrm.sdk.formattedvaluecollection.aspx
you will find this statement is valid for only string display values. If you try to use this statement with Integer values it will throw key not found in dictionary exception.
So try to avoid this statement for retrieving integer display name optionset in your code.
Try this
string Title = (bool)entity.Attributes.Contains("title") ? entity.FormattedValues["title"].ToString() : "";
When you are talking about Option set, you have value and label. What this will give you is the label. '?' will make sure that the null value is never passed.