I want to made Uitableview with dynamic section with dynamic rows

Question

I want to show section title as January,February,March(as per data comes from api) instead of showing January, March, February.

I am getting this data from backend api.

wholeDic : NSDictionary = {

January =     (
            {
        date = "20-jan-18";
        subtitle = "Only four days remaining";
        title = "School fees of August, 2018School fees of August, 2018";
    },
            {
        date = "21-jan-18";
        subtitle = Holi;
        title = "Holiday on third march";
    }
);
february =     (
            {
        date = "20-feb-18";
        subtitle = "Paricipate in this activity";
        title = "Annual function will be held in feb,2018";
    },
            {
        date = "20-12-18";
        subtitle = "Holiday issue by Govt. of India";
        title = "Bharat Band";
    }
);
march =     (
            {
        date = "20-feb-18";
        subtitle = "Paricipate in this activity";
        title = "Annual function will be held in feb,2018";
    },
            {
        date = "20-feb-18";
        subtitle = "Paricipate in this activity";
        title = "Annual function will be held in feb,2018";
    }
);}

Now I have fetched "key" and added in array

for (key, value) in wholeDic{
   sectionTitleArray.add(key)
   print(sectionTitleArray)
}

and when I print sectionTitleArray than console is showing January, March, February instead of showing January, February, March.

I know that Dictionary is an unordered collection but I want to know that how to fetch keys by order?

My UitableView DataSource & Delegate are

func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int{

    return sectionTitleArray.count
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

    let sectionTitle : String = sectionTitleArray.object(at: section) as! String
    let sectiondes:NSArray = wholeDic.object(forKey: sectionTitle) as! NSArray
    return sectiondes.count

}

This is my tableView .Everything is working fine but I want to display month like JANUARY,FEBRUARY,MARCH as per api data.

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cellIdentifier = "cell"
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: cellIdentifier, for: indexPath) as! frameNboundTableViewCell
    let sectionTitle : String = sectionTitleArray.object(at: indexPath.section) as! String
    let contentArr : NSArray = wholeDic.object(forKey: sectionTitle) as! NSArray
    let contentDic : NSDictionary = contentArr.object(at: indexPath.row) as! NSDictionary
    print(contentDic)
    cell.titleLbl.text = contentDic.value(forKey: "title") as? String
    cell.titleLbl.numberOfLines = 0
    return cell

}

Answer 1

Based on the comments you can change the api response into array and simply access with index. The json response will look like this

    {
  "data" : [
    {
      "month" : "January",
      "details" : [
        {
          "date" : "20-jan-18",
          "subtitle" : "Only four days remaining",
          "title" : "School fees of August, 2018School fees of August, 2018"
        },
        {
          "date" : "21-jan-18",
          "subtitle" : "Holi",
          "title" : "Holiday on third march"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "month" : "february",
      "details" : [
        {
          "date" : "20-feb-18",
          "subtitle" : "Paricipate in this activity",
          "title" : "Annual function will be held in feb,2018"
        },
        {
          "date" : "20-12-18",
          "subtitle" : "Holiday issue by Govt. of India",
          "title" : "Bharat Band"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "month" : "march",
      "details" : [
        {
          "date" : "20-feb-18",
          "subtitle" : "Paricipate in this activity",
          "title" : "Annual function will be held in feb,2018"
        },
        {
          "date" : "20-feb-18",
          "subtitle" : "Paricipate in this activity",
          "title" : "Annual function will be held in feb,2018"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Now you can access the first object from the json array and then retrieve the respective key and display it. It will be something like

let object = response.data![index]
object.month // "January"

Hope it helps