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woakley5
woakley5

Reputation: 289

Code not retrieving/displaying date from Parse.com in a UILabel

I am trying to retrieve the updatedAt section of a parse object and displaying it as a label. I have created a date formatter yet when I convert it to a string it just becomes a null value. Here is the code:

- (void)viewDidLoad { 
[super viewDidLoad];

PFQuery *BizarroTime = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Bizarro"];
[BizarroTime getObjectInBackgroundWithId:@"MkoIkCBMdP" block:^(PFObject *Bizarro, NSError *error) {
    NSDate *BizarroDate = Bizarro[@"updatedAt"];
    NSDateFormatter *df = [NSDateFormatter new];
    [df setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd 'at' HH:mm"];
    self.BizarroUpdatedAt.text = [df stringFromDate:BizarroDate];
}];
}

Any help with this would be awesome! Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 280

Answers (2)

Lyndsey Scott
Lyndsey Scott

Reputation: 37290

To make danh's message more concise for future answer-seekers, the updatedAt field of a Parse PFObject* object cannot be accessed as if it's a value in the object's dictionary, ex.:

object[@"updatedAt"];

But must instead be accessed using Parse's updatedAt method:

[object updatedAt];

Upvotes: 2

danh
danh

Reputation: 62676

You should check that the returned object is non-nil. If there is an object, the way to get it's updated date is via the PFObject method called updatedAt ...

[BizarroTime getObjectInBackgroundWithId:@"MkoIkCBMdP" block:^(PFObject *Bizarro, NSError *error) {
    if (Bizarro) {
        NSDate *BizarroDate = [Bizarro updatedAt];
        // format as you have it
    } else {
        NSLog(@"%@", error);
    }
}];

Upvotes: 0

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