I have a UI that displays data from a user table like FirstName, LastName, Email,etc. Now i want to create a search bar along with scope buttons that filters data depending on the scope button clicked. I have 2 scope buttons, FirstName and LastName. By default FirstName button is selected. Below is how I add my data to a mutablearray,
userData = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSDictionary *tmpDic in response) {
[userData addObject: [NSString stringWithFormat: #"%# %#",
[tmpDic valueForKey: #"FirstName"],[tmpDic valueForKey: #"LastName"]]];
}
My search code,
- (void) searchTableView {
NSString *searchText = theSearchBar.text;
NSMutableArray *searchArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSString *sTemp in userData)
{
NSRange titleResultsRange = [sTemp rangeOfString:searchText options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
if (titleResultsRange.length > 0)
[copyuserData addObject:sTemp];
}
NSLog(#"Copied data is:%#", copyuserData);
[searchArray release];
searchArray = nil;
}
The above code works well for searching the userData array, but i am not sure how will i change the code so that depending on FirstName, LastName scope buttons it will display the result. how i will hook up the buttons to the search bar so that it only display result depending on what scope bar button is clicked. Thanks in advance..
You need to do two things:
1. Look at the value of the searchBar.selectedScopeButtonIndex - this will tell you if you need to search first names or last names.
2. Depending on the scope button, you want to search either the first part of each array item or the second part. There are lots of ways to do this. Probably the easiest is to keep 2 parallel arrays, firstNames and lastNames, which you populate from tmpDic. Then for the actual search, you could either loop through firstNames or lastNames, or do a for(int j=0;j<[firstNames count]; j++) and get [firstNames objectAtIndex:j] and compare that to your temp string. If any string matches, add it to your results array.
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I have a UISearchBar in my app.and I want the four Scope bars in this UISearchBar that I have given from the XIB file .say one , two , three and four and now Problem is I have four array s which contains separates values for each array ..say array one , array two , array three and array four .
Now I want when I search on pressing scope bar one only array one values should search ..
on pressing scope bar two only array twovalues should search and so on ..
Is there any method for scope bar button available to search ?
like If( scope_bar==1){...}else
like If i search for scope barone then it will display only array one. is there any method available ..I searched on the apple documentation but could not get
You should read some tutorials about NSDictionary . i have implemented this search on book search app where titles and authors were searched both at same time.
// for each book
NSDictionary * book = NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
title, #"TITLE", author, #"AUTHOR", nil];
[dataSource addObject:book];
after that in search method you can make changes according to your own ease
- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText
{
[tableData removeAllObjects];
if(searchText != nil && ![searchText isEqualToString:#""]){
for(NSDictionary * book in dataSource){
NSString * title = [book objectForKey:#"TITLE"];
NSString * author = [book objectForKey:#"AUTHOR"];
NSRange titleRange = [[title lowercaseString] rangeOfString:[searchText lowercaseString]];
NSRange authorRange = [[author lowercaseString] rangeOfString:[searchText lowercaseString]];
if(titleRange.location != NSNotFound || authorRange.location != NSNotFound)
[tableData addObject:book];
}
}
[tableView reloadData];
}
I'm displaying an array of contacts ( [[ContactStore sharedStore]allContacts] ) in a tableview and have divided the list into alphabetic sections. I have used the following code to return an array of the first letters of the contacts, and a dictionary of the number of entries per letter.
//create an array of the first letters of the names in the sharedStore
nameIndex = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
//create a dictionary to save the number of names for each first letter
nameIndexCount = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
for (int i=0; i<[[[ContactStore sharedStore]allContacts]count]; i++){
//Get the first letter and the name of each person
Contact *p = [[[ContactStore sharedStore]allContacts]objectAtIndex:i];
NSString *lastName = [p lastName];
NSString *alphabet = [lastName substringToIndex:1];
//If that letter is absent from the dictionary then add it and set its value as 1
if ([nameIndexCount objectForKey:alphabet] == nil) {
[nameIndex addObject:alphabet];
[nameIndexCount setValue:#"1" forKey:alphabet];
//If its already present add one to its value
} else {
NSString *newValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", ([[nameIndexCount valueForKey:alphabet] intValue] + 1)];
[nameIndexCount setValue:newValue forKey:alphabet];
}
}
This works, however it is very slow when the array is large, I'm sure there's a better way to do this but I'm quite new to this so am not sure how. Are there any suggestions for a better way to do this?
Although Bio Cho has a good point, you might see an increase in performance by calling
[[ContactStore sharedStore]allContacts]
only once. For example:
nameIndex = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
nameIndexCount = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
/*
Create our own copy of the contacts only once and reuse it
*/
NSArray* allContacts = [[ContactStore sharedStore] allContacts];
for (int i=0; i<[allContacts count]; i++){
//Get the first letter and the name of each person
Contact *p = allContacts[i];
NSString *lastName = [p lastName];
NSString *alphabet = [lastName substringToIndex:1];
//If that letter is absent from the dictionary then add it and set its value as 1
if ([nameIndexCount objectForKey:alphabet] == nil) {
[nameIndex addObject:alphabet];
[nameIndexCount setValue:#"1" forKey:alphabet];
//If its already present add one to its value
} else {
NSString *newValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", ([[nameIndexCount
valueForKey:alphabet] intValue] + 1)];
[nameIndexCount setValue:newValue forKey:alphabet];
}
}
Though I can't say for sure, I'd guess that repeatedly accessing your shared store is what's killing you. Maybe only accessing it once will give you what you need.
Consider storing your contacts in Core Data and using an NSFetchedResultsController.
The NSFetchedResultsController will only load a subset of the rows which are visible on the table view, thus preventing your user from having to wait for all the contacts to be sorted.
NSFetchedResultsController will also sort your contacts by an attribute (ie. first or last name), and you can set your section titles to be the first letter of the field you're sorting by.
Take a look at this question and this tutorial.
I'm trying to implement a searchable tableview in my app, where when someone can search a location and get results. It looks something like this:
I'm getting my source from genomes.com which gives more then just cities, it also has parks, buildings, counties, etc. I want to just show locations which are cities.
The data is a JSON file which is parsed by JSONKit. The whole file comes in (maximum 20 objects) and then the searchable table view shows it. I'm not sure if I should parse the JSON file differently, or if I should make the table view show only the results needed. (Performance in this case is not an issue.). The JSON file gets converted to an NSArray.
Here is part of the array:
{
adminCode1 = MA;
adminCode2 = 027;
adminName1 = Massachusetts;
adminName2 = "Worcester County";
adminName3 = "";
adminName4 = "";
adminName5 = "";
continentCode = NA;
countryCode = US;
countryName = "United States";
elevation = 178;
fcl = A;
fclName = "country, state, region,...";
fcode = ADMD;
fcodeName = "administrative division";
geonameId = 4929431;
lat = "42.2000939";
lng = "-71.8495163";
name = "Town of Auburn";
population = 0;
score = "53.40083694458008";
timezone = {
dstOffset = "-4";
gmtOffset = "-5";
timeZoneId = "America/New_York";
};
toponymName = "Town of Auburn";
},
What I want to do is if the "fcl" (seen in the array) is equal to P, then I want it to show that in the table view. If the "fcl" is some other character, then I don't want it to be seen in the table view. I'm pretty sure that an if statement can do that, but I don't know how to get it so that it filters part of it.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks
EDIT: As of now, this is the code to search:
- (void)delayedSearch:(NSString*)searchString
{
[self.geoNamesSearch cancel];
[self.geoNamesSearch search:searchString
maxRows:20
startRow:0
language:nil];
}
- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString
{
self.searchDisplayController.searchBar.prompt = NSLocalizedStringFromTable(#"ILGEONAMES_SEARCHING", #"ILGeoNames", #"");
[self.searchResults removeAllObjects];
// Delay the search 1 second to minimize outstanding requests
[NSObject cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:self];
[self performSelector:#selector(delayedSearch:) withObject:searchString afterDelay:0];
return YES;
}
Your question is basically, how do you filter your array from a search bar string? If so, you can detect when the text changes via UISearchBarDelegate and then go through your array copying those objects that contain the string you are looking for, i.e.
This is the delegate method you want: searchBar:textDidChange:.
[filterArray removeAllObjects];
for(int i = 0; i < [normalArray count]; i++){
NSRange textRange;
textRange =[[[[normalArray objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:#"name"] lowercaseString] rangeOfString:[searchBarString lowercaseString]];
//I wasn't sure which objectForKey: string you were looking for, just replace the one you want to filter.
if(textRange.location != NSNotFound)
{
[filterArray addObject:[normalArray objectAtIndex:i]];
}
}
filterTableView = YES;
[tableView reloadData];
Note the filterTableView bool value, this is so your tableView knows either to load normally or the filtered version you just made. You implement this in:
tableView:numberOfRowsInSection: //For number of rows.
tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: //For the content of the cells.
Hope this is what you were looking for.
NSMutableArray* filtered = [[NSMutableArray alloc] autorelease];
for (int i=0;i<[data count];i++)
{
NSDictionary* item=[data objectAtIndex:i];
if (#"P" == [item objectForKey:#"fcl"] )
{
[filtered addObject:item];
}
}
So every time the search field changes, you will compute a new array, and then reload your tableview. The number of rows will be the numbers of rows in your filtered array.
To compute the new array, you can do this (assuming an array of dictionaries):
NSString *searchString; // from the search field
NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[origArray count]];
for(NSDictionary *dict in origArray) {
NSString *val = [dict objectForKey:#"fcl"];
if([val length] >= searchString) {
NSString subString = [val substringToIndex:[searchString length]];
if([subString isEqualToString:val]) [array addObject:dict];
}
}
Each cell then will get its values from the new array.
Just put your json in a NSDictionary and simply do something like :
if ([[yourJson objectForKey:#"fcl"] stringValue] == #"A")
//doSomething
Currently I'm populating my tableviewcells with the contents of multiple arrays representing a name, id, etc.
My question comes when I start to use the search display controller. I have an array with a list of names, a list of IDs, a list of barcodes, and a list of Aliases. When the user types in the search bar I need to be able to search all 4 arrays. When it finds the result in 1 array it has to pair the result with the 3 other arrays..
Example
Names (apple,carrot,banana, dog)
alias (red, orange, yellow, brown)
barcode (1,2,10,20)
id (30, 40, 50, 60)
So if the user types "a" I should populate the table view with
Apple, Carrot, Banana and the associated alias, barcode, id.
If the user were to type 2 I should only get
carrot and dog.
If the user were to type 0 I would get all of those items.
Any ideas how to accomplish this?
UPDATE:
This is how I did it.
-(BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString {
BOOL shouldReturn = FALSE;
[searchResults removeAllObjects];
for (int i = 0; i < [itemIDRows count]; i++) {
BOOL foundResult = FALSE;
if ([[itemIDRows objectAtIndex:i] rangeOfString:searchString].location != NSNotFound) {
foundResult = TRUE;
}
if ([[nameRows objectAtIndex:i] rangeOfString:searchString].location != NSNotFound) {
foundResult = TRUE;
}
if ([[barcodeRows objectAtIndex:i] rangeOfString:searchString].location != NSNotFound) {
foundResult = TRUE;
}
if ([[aliasRows objectAtIndex:i] rangeOfString:searchString].location != NSNotFound) {
foundResult = TRUE;
}
if (foundResult) {
NSNumber *result = [NSNumber numberWithInt:i];
if ([self searchResults] == nil) {
NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[self setSearchResults:array];
[array release];
}
[searchResults addObject:result];
shouldReturn = YES;
}
}
return shouldReturn;
}
Then when I'm populating the tableview I do something like this
if ([tableView isEqual:self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView]) {
[cell setCellContentsName:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [nameRows objectAtIndex:[[searchResults objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] integerValue]]];
} else {
[cell setCellContentsName:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [nameRows objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
}
However when I type something like 9999 it brings up instances where only 1 9 is in the ID or barcode. Any ideas how to fix that?
UPDATE2:
Solved the problem by having the list always refresh instead of only reloading the data if a result was found. Now it works perfectly :D
The search display controller calls the
UISearchDisplayDelegate
method:
searchDisplayController:shouldReloadTableForSearchString:
Inside this method, you need to implement your logic. This logic will need to search all 4 of your arrays for hits, and do the appropriate lookups (i.e. to get from orange to carrot, or from 50 to banana). Each time you get a hit, I would put it in an NSMutableSet (to prevent dupes). Then when you're done searching all arrays, copy the set into the array that your table's data source reads from.
If you want to show the user WHY a given row is a hit (i.e. they typed 50 and got banana), you'd have to display all 4 of the attributes in your table cell. And you'd need to highlight the part that matched. If you do this, I'd create a small container class, something like "searchHit" that contains all 4 attributes, as well as a flag for which attribute got the hit, and possibly the substring of the attribute that got the hit (so you can use a yellow background for this substring, for example.) The tableView's data source would then have an array of these searchHit objects to display, and your cellForRowAtIndexPath would need to decode this object and display the hit appropriately.
You can do that with NSPredicate using KVC object.
Create an NSObject respond to the KVC scheme http://theocacao.com/document.page/161 . You can use property for that.
Filter your array with an NSPredicate http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSPredicate_Class/Reference/NSPredicate.html
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"self.name LIKE[cd] %# OR self.alias LIKE[cd] %#",searchString,searchString];
NSArray *result = [baseArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
My iPhone application has a UITable View implemented with search functionality in it. The values in the table are grouped into sections from A-Z. Whenever a user tap on particular cell in the table it loads a detail view controller which gives all the values of that particular user. Now my problem is whenever I search some contact and tap on a particular user to check his detail view it always returns a contact starting with letter A. So, my doubt is how to implement this search functionality. Is there a way to get the name of the contact I tapped..Please check this screenshot.. For example if I search some contact starting with letter 'B' and tap on that contact it loads the detail view of a contact starting with letter 'A'. I get all the values from the database. Can you please help me out...
This is the code:
The code I wrote here is in a method:
I am getting all the contacts from database and assigning to an array contacts. Then I am grouping all the contacts according to the alphabets and grouping everything into a dictionary with keys as A-Z and values as name of contacts starting with these letters. Now when I search for a particular contact his name may start with either A ,B or Z..so in the search bar when I search for a particular contact for example a contact starting with letter Z, in this case it gives the details of a person with A. I want this to change so that whenever I tap on a particular contact it should load its details. I am unable to figure out how to do it..
contacts = [[db getContacts:#"Contacts"] componentsSeparatedByString:#","];
[db cleanup];
NSMutableArray *tempArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
NSString *charString;
for (int i=65; i<91; i++) {
charString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%c",(char *)i];
[tempArray addObject:charString];
}
[charString release];
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
for (int i=0; i<[tempArray count]; i++) {
NSMutableArray *contactsByIndex = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init]autorelease];
NSString *tempChar = [tempArray objectAtIndex:i];
for (int j=0; j<[contacts count]-1; j++)
{
NSString *test = [contacts objectAtIndex:j];
NSString *tempString = [test substringToIndex:1];
if ([tempString isEqualToString:tempChar]) {
[contactsByIndex addObject:[contacts objectAtIndex:j]];
}
}
[dict setObject:contactsByIndex forKey:[tempArray objectAtIndex:i]];
}
self.contactNames = dict;
NSArray *array = [[contactNames allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector:#selector(caseInsensitiveCompare:)];
self.contactKeys = array;
[dict release];
[tempArray release];
//---display the searchbar---
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = searchBar;
searchBar.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeYes;
listOfContacts = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSString *key in array)
{
NSArray *contactsArray = [contactNames objectForKey:key];
for (NSString *name in contactsArray) {
[listOfContacts addObject:name];
}
}
- (void) searchContactsTableView {
//---clears the search result---
[searchResult removeAllObjects];
for (NSString *str in listOfContacts) {
NSRange titleResultsRange = [str rangeOfString:searchBar.text options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
if (titleResultsRange.length > 0)
[searchResult addObject:str];
}
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
// Navigation logic may go here. Create and push another view controller.
NSString *selectedRow=nil;
if (isSearchOn) {
selectedRow=[searchResult objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
}
DetailViewController *detailViewController;
int section_index=[indexPath indexAtPosition:[indexPath length]-2];
int sugarid_Index = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length]-1];
NSString* sectionName=[contactKeys objectAtIndex:section_index];
NSLog(#"%#",sectionName);
//This is a method which gets the details of a particular contact based on the section and the row selected..Contacts is the table name
NSString *getContact=[db getId:#"Contacts" bySection:sectionName andIndex:sugarid_Index];
id=[db getContact:#"Contacts" id:getContact];
// Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
detailViewController = [[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"DetailViewController" bundle:nil];
detailViewController.eachContact=contactForSugarId;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
}
When I search for a contact it should search for the name in database and should return its details. Is there a way to do it..please let me know or is there a way to get the name of the cell i.e. the contact name so that I can use that in one of my database methods to retrieve the details of the contact I selected.
Off hand it sounds like you're looking in the wrong array of contacts after the search. You need to have two arrays. One with all the contacts, and one with the filtered contacts. When you search, put all the results in order in the filtered list, and pull the details from that one.
Does this make sense?
If not, try posting a bit of code, and explaining your structure.