collection.data

iOS
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Hi,

I wrote some code years ago where I used backendless as part of a proof of concept. I had to bring it back from the dead and fired up ye old backendless, turns out you guys have had some major changes. No biggy I have upgraded my account and installed the changes. But I’m having a little bit of an issue trying to work out how to reference the data the way I use to. Below is the new code, I’m particularly interested in how to rewrite collection.data portion.

New Query as per your documentation.

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        id<IDataStore> queryAircraft = [backendless.data ofTable:@"Aircraft"];

        DataQueryBuilder *queryBuilder = [DataQueryBuilder new];

        NSString *whereClause = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"AircraftIdentification = \'%@\'", aircraftRegoValue];

        [queryBuilder setWhereClause:whereClause];

        [queryAircraft find:queryBuilder

                    response:^(NSArray *aircraftObjects) {

                        NSLog(@"Retrieved %i objects", (int)aircraftObjects.count);

                         aircraftCount = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d",aircraftObjects.count];

                    }

                       error:^(Fault *fault) {

                           NSLog(@"Server reported an error: %@", fault.message);

                       }];

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if (aircraftCount == 0) {

                //reset the NSArray to be blank because no values came back

                flightRecordData = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

            }

            else

            {

                flightRecordData = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

                for (FlightLog *flightlog in collection.data) <---I loop over the results using the         NSMutableArray....well I use to.... 

                {

How should I be referencing the data returned instance? queryAircraft?

Please understand I haven’t coded in about 3 years…so be gentle with your answers. I have many cob webs…

Cheers

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Hello jeremy,
I assume you are using Backendless 4, right?

Please check this documentation for v4.
And here you can find the differences between data retrieval in v3 and v4.

Regards, Olga

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Hi Olga,

Thanks for the response. I have seen the documentation and have read through it a couple of times. Clearly I’m Missing something.

Using your example,

[contactStorage find:queryBuilder
response:^(NSArray *contactObjects) {
NSLog(@“Retrieved %i objects”, (int)contactObjects.count);
}

contactObjects is the Array of which all the data is stored. Correct? So I’m thinking that I use this in my NSMutableArray. Then loop through the NSMutableArray for extracting elements that I wish to use.

Hope that makes sense.
Jeremy

4

Hi Jeremy,

contactObjects is the Array of which all the data is stored. Correct?

not all data from your table, but just a page, by default it is 10 records from your table. to get next 10 records you have to shift your offset with 10. Here it is a doc about paging https://backendless.com/docs/ios/doc.html#data_data_paging

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Hi Sergey,

Gotcha. Okay So really I need to paginate through items. Mmm…Okay,

Thanks everyone.
Jeremy