I'm an experienced Android developer trying to get a prototype iOS app running using the Parse service and sdk (https://www.parse.com/).
It's great, and i can get all my objects and their values with no trouble, everything works fine.
However, i cannot get the updatedAt value automatically created by Parse for each object.
It's a must for me, and I dont want to have to save an aditional timestamp as a String when the data is sitting right there.
This is the gist of what i was doing.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath object:(PFObject *)object {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}
// this works fine
cell.textLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"name"];
//substring however does not
NSDate *updated = [object objectForKey:@"updatedAt"];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, MMM d, h:mm a"];
cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Lasted Updated: %@", [dateFormat stringFromDate:update]];
//i also tried like this at first
cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Lasted Updated: %@", [object objectForKey:@"updatedAt"]];
return cell;
}