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spiderguy84

macrumors regular
Original poster
Nov 12, 2009
108
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I just downloaded the Dev package yesterday and started off with following the thread for creating an RSS Feed reader from this link

theappleblog.com/2008/08/04/tutorial-build-a-simple-rss-reader-for-iphone/

I follow the instructions and put in my own RSS Feed address adn it builds it with no errors, however when I run the iPhone simulator, it does not pull up anything, just shows my Title, but with no articles listed. Does anyone have any idea why this may be? Here is my code

Code:
@implementation RootViewController

/*
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // Uncomment the following line to display an Edit button in the navigation bar for this view controller.
    // self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
}
*/

/*
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
}
*/
/*
 - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
 [super viewDidAppear:animated];
 
 if ([stories count] == 0) {
 NSString * path = @"http://www.wilburtoncoc.org/WilburtonPodcast/";
 [self parseXMLFileAtURL:path];
 }
 - (void)parseXMLFileAtURL:(NSString *)URL {
 stories = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
 
 //you must then convert the path to a proper NSURL or it won't work
 NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString:URL];
 
 // here, for some reason you have to use NSClassFromString when trying to alloc NSXMLParser, otherwise you will get an object not found error
 // this may be necessary only for the toolchain
 rssParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL];
 
 // Set self as the delegate of the parser so that it will receive the parser delegate methods callbacks.
 [rssParser setDelegate:self];
 
 // Depending on the XML document you're parsing, you may want to enable these features of NSXMLParser.
 [rssParser setShouldProcessNamespaces:YES];
 [rssParser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:YES];
 [rssParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:YES];
 
 [rssParser parse];
 }
 - (void)parserDidStartDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser {
 NSLog(@"found file and started parsing");
 }
 
 - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser parseErrorOccurred:(NSError *)parseError {
 NSString * errorString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Unable to download story feed from web site (Error code %i )", [parseError code]];
 NSLog(@"error parsing XML: %@", errorString);
 
 UIAlertView * errorAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error loading content" message:errorString delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
 [errorAlert show];
 }
 
 - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict{
 //NSLog(@"found this element: %@", elementName);
 currentElement = [elementName copy];
 
 if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"item"]) {
 // clear out our story item caches...
 item = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
 currentTitle = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
 currentDate = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
 currentSummary = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
 currentLink = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
 }
 }
 
 - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName{
 
 //NSLog(@"ended element: %@", elementName);
 if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"item"]) {
 // save values to an item, then store that item into the array...
 [item setObject:currentTitle forKey:@"title"];
 [item setObject:currentLink forKey:@"link"];
 [item setObject:currentSummary forKey:@"summary"];
 [item setObject:currentDate forKey:@"date"];
 
 [stories addObject:[item copy]];
 NSLog(@"adding story: %@", currentTitle);
 }
 }
 
 - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{
 //NSLog(@"found characters: %@", string);
 // save the characters for the current item...
 if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"title"]) {
 [currentTitle appendString:string];
 } else if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"link"]) {
 [currentLink appendString:string];
 } else if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"description"]) {
 [currentSummary appendString:string];
 } else if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"pubDate"]) {
 [currentDate appendString:string];
 }
 }
 
 - (void)parserDidEndDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser {
 
 [activityIndicator stopAnimating];
 [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview];
 
 NSLog(@"all done!");
 NSLog(@"stories array has %d items", [stories count]);
 [newsTable reloadData];
 }
 cellSize = CGSizeMake([newsTable bounds].size.width, 60);
 }
*/
/*
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
	[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}
*/
/*
- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
	[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
}
*/

/*
 // Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
	// Return YES for supported orientations.
	return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
 */

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
	// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
	
	// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}

- (void)viewDidUnload {
	// Release anything that can be recreated in viewDidLoad or on demand.
	// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}


#pragma mark Table view methods

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return 1;
}


// Customize the number of rows in the table view.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return [stories count];
}


// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
	static NSString *MyIdentifier = @"MyIdentifier";
	UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];
	
	if (cell == nil) {
		cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:MyIdentifier] autorelease];
	}
	
	// Set up the cell
	int storyIndex = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] - 1];
	[cell setText:[[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey: @"title"]];
	
	return cell;
}


/*
// Override to support row selection in the table view.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    // Navigation logic may go here -- for example, create and push another view controller.
	// AnotherViewController *anotherViewController = [[AnotherViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"AnotherView" bundle:nil];
	// [self.navigationController pushViewController:anotherViewController animated:YES];
	// [anotherViewController release];
}
*/


/*
// Override to support conditional editing of the table view.
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // Return NO if you do not want the specified item to be editable.
    return YES;
}
*/


/*
 

spiderguy84

macrumors regular
Original poster
Nov 12, 2009
108
0
I realized that not all of my code got copied. Here is the code in its entirety, without the / after the webaddress of the RSS Feed trying to be accessed.

Code:
@implementation RootViewController
// grabRSSFeed function that takes a string (blogAddress) as a parameter and
// fills the global blogEntries with the entries
-(void) grabRSSFeed:(NSString *)blogAddress {
	
    // Initialize the blogEntries MutableArray that we declared in the header
    blogEntries = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];	
	
    // Convert the supplied URL string into a usable URL object
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: blogAddress];
	
    // Create a new rssParser object based on the TouchXML "CXMLDocument" class, this is the
    // object that actually grabs and processes the RSS data
    CXMLDocument *rssParser = [[[CXMLDocument alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url options:0 error:nil] autorelease];
	
    // Create a new Array object to be used with the looping of the results from the rssParser
    NSArray *resultNodes = NULL;
	
    // Set the resultNodes Array to contain an object for every instance of an  node in our RSS feed
    resultNodes = [rssParser nodesForXPath:@"//item" error:nil];
	
    // Loop through the resultNodes to access each items actual data
    for (CXMLElement *resultElement in resultNodes) {
		
        // Create a temporary MutableDictionary to store the items fields in, which will eventually end up in blogEntries
        NSMutableDictionary *blogItem = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
		
        // Create a counter variable as type "int"
        int counter;
		
        // Loop through the children of the current  node
        for(counter = 0; counter < [resultElement childCount]; counter++) {
			
            // Add each field to the blogItem Dictionary with the node name as key and node value as the value
            [blogItem setObject:[[resultElement childAtIndex:counter] stringValue] forKey:[[resultElement childAtIndex:counter] name]];
        }
		
        // Add the blogItem to the global blogEntries Array so that the view can access it.
        [blogEntries addObject:[blogItem copy]];
    }
}
/*
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // Uncomment the following line to display an Edit button in the navigation bar for this view controller.
    // self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
}
*/

/*
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
}
*/
/*
 - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
 [super viewDidAppear:animated];
 // Check if blogEntries has already been filled, if not
 // if([blogEntries count] == 0) {
 // *blogAddress = @"http://wilburtoncoc.org/WilburtonPodcast";
 
 // Call the grabRSSFeed function with the above
 // string as a parameter
 [self grabRSSFeed:blogAddress];
 
 // Call the reloadData function on the blogTable, this
 // will cause it to refresh itself with our new data
 [blogTable reloadData];
 }
 }*/
/*
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
	[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}
*/
/*
- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
	[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
}
*/

/*
 // Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
	// Return YES for supported orientations.
	return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
 */

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
	// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
	
	// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}

- (void)viewDidUnload {
	// Release anything that can be recreated in viewDidLoad or on demand.
	// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}


#pragma mark Table view methods

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return 1;
}


// Customize the number of rows in the table view.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
   return [blogEntries count];
}


// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    
	// Configure the cell.
	int blogEntryIndex = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] -1];
	[cell setText:[[blogEntries objectAtIndex: blogEntryIndex] objectForKey: @"title"]];
    return cell;
}



/*
// Override to support row selection in the table view.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    // Navigation logic may go here -- for example, create and push another view controller.
	// AnotherViewController *anotherViewController = [[AnotherViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"AnotherView" bundle:nil];
	// [self.navigationController pushViewController:anotherViewController animated:YES];
	// [anotherViewController release];
}
*/


/*
// Override to support conditional editing of the table view.
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // Return NO if you do not want the specified item to be editable.
    return YES;
}
*/


/*
// Override to support editing the table view.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete) {
        // Delete the row from the data source.
        [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
    }   
    else if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert) {
        // Create a new instance of the appropriate class, insert it into the array, and add a new row to the table view.
    }   
}
*/


/*
// Override to support rearranging the table view.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath {
}
*/


/*
// Override to support conditional rearranging of the table view.
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canMoveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // Return NO if you do not want the item to be re-orderable.
    return YES;
}
*/


- (void)dealloc {
    [super dealloc];
}


@end
 
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