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Teddy K
Teddy K

Reputation: 870

Populate UITableView datasource using struct instead of array

I have a model for a user profile

struct Profile {
  let bio: String?
  let company: String
  let createdDate: Date
  let department: String
  let email: String
  let firstName: String
  let coverImageURL: URL?
  let jobTitle: String
  let lastName: String
  let location: String?
  let name: String
  let profileImageURL: URL?
  let roles: [String]
  let isActive: Bool
  let updatedDate: Date?
  let userID: String
}

I need to render a UITableView and assign each of these items to a row.

As this model is a single item, I am unsure how to achieve this, I had considered using Mirror to iterate over the struct and map each value but that feels a little gross and I'd like to retain some form of control as to what is rendered.

How can I convert this model to a data type I can iterate over for a table view?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (1)

Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Reputation: 16341

You could create a dictionary of the properties as keys and values like this and use the dictionary to iterate through the values.

struct Profile: Codable {
    //...
    func getProfileDictionary() throws -> [String: Any] {
        let data = try JSONEncoder().encode(self)
        return try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as? [String: Any] ?? [:]
    }
}

Iterating through the key, values in the dictionary.

do {
    let dictionary = try profile.getProfileDictionary()
    for (key, value) in dictionary {
        print("\(key): \(value)")
    }
} catch { print(error) }

Upvotes: 2

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