MGTwitterEngine and iPhone

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I downloaded MGTwitterEngine and added to my iPhone project. It's connecting and getting statues I can tell from dumping them into an NSLog. But, I can't figure out how how I need to parse the calls so I can add them to a table. They are returned as an NSString and look like this: ``` { "created_at" = 2009-07-25 15:28:41 -0500; favorited = 0; id = 65; source = "Twitter"; "source_api_request_type" = 0; text = "The wolf shirt strikes again!! #sdcc :P http://twitpic.com/blz4b"; truncated = 0; user = { "created_at" = "Sat Jul 25 20:34:33 +0000 2009"; description = "Host of Tekzilla on Revision3 and Qore on PSN. Also, a geek."; "favourites_count" = 0; "followers_count" = 0; following = false; "friends_count" = 0; id = 5; location = "San Francisco"; name = "Veronica Belmont"; notifications = false; "profile_background_tile" = false; "profile_image_url" = "http://blabnow.com/avatar/Twitter_10350_new_twitter_normal.jpg"; protected = 0; "screen_name" = Veron…

Accepted Answer

What you are seeing in your console is an NSLog of an NSDictionary and not an NSString. From Matt Gemmell's MGTwitterEngine Readme:

The values sent to these methods are all NSArrays containing an NSDictionary for each status or user or direct message, with sub-dictionaries if necessary (for example, the timeline methods usually return statuses, each of which has a sub-dictionary giving information about the user who posted that status).

So whatever object you passed to your NSLog() statement is actually a dictionary and you can access the fields with a call to:

```
NSString *createdAtDate = [record valueForKey:@"created_at"];
NSString *source = [record valueForKey:@"source"];
// etc...
```

Where record is the object. Keep in mind that the user field is a sub-dictionary. You access it this way:

```
NSDictionary *userDict = [record valueForKey:@"user"];
NSString *name = [userDict valueForKey:@"name"];
NSString *location = [userDict valueForKey:@"location"];
// etc...
```

You could actually use the NSArray returned in the request as your table view's data source and then just extract the one you need by the index in your -cellForRowAtIndexPath table view delegate.

Best Regards,

MGTwitterEngine and iPhone

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