CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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V1P3R

Reputation: 176

How to identify user associated with a certain object in Parse?

I have a Product class in Parse, and I'm trying to identify the user and their email associated with a product when selected. In my Product class, I do have a user pointer.

Here is what I have so far:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {


        let product: PFObject = PFObject(className: "Product")

        let createdBy: AnyObject! = product.objectForKey("user")?.email



        println("You selected cell #\(indexPath.row), created by \(createdBy)!")

The code just gives me "nil" for the createdBy value.

I've tried following the Parse docs, but I honestly don't know what I'm doing. This is my first app.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 55

Answers (2)

Brandon A
Brandon A

Reputation: 8279

What you need to do is save a userID per product object. In fact, every user already has a property called objectId when you create a new parse user object. You can use this unique identifier to set to a property called userID in every product object. Or if you would like it to be the user's email, make sure the email is stored to the user:

let user = PFUser()
// Fill in the rest here...
user.setObject("[email protected]", forKey: "email")
user.save()

And then when you create your purchase objects (make sure you have an instantiated user below

let product = PFProduct()
// Fill in the rest here...
product.setObject(user["email"], forKey: "purchaserEmail")
product.save()

So then when you are trying to check for the email associated with the purchaser of that product

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

    let product: PFProduct = self.products.objectAtIndex(indexPath.row) as! PFProduct

    var purchaserEmail: String = product["purchaserEmail"]

    println("Go spam \(purchaserEmail) more.")
}

And you can do the same with the username of the user if you'd like to save that to the product object as well. Hope this helped!

Upvotes: 2

pbush25
pbush25

Reputation: 5258

I think in your query where you pull the information from Parse you need to use the includeKey parameter.

It would look like this:

query.includeKey("user") and that should allow you to get at that user info.

Upvotes: 1

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