I'm developing a housing app with a number of houses which each have attributes. Those attributes are currently listed in a dictionary like: House 0 {key: string, key: string} etc.
I'm currently at the point where i want to add some images, which have to be downloaded and displayed. I already wrote the async image loader class. Im just wondering about how to structure the image links, and I would be the one to dive head first into something like this and spend two days debugging a crappy solution.
I thought about adding another dictionary named images in the current House 0 dict, and then looping through it. But I would love to hear better (easier) solutions.
Every house can have any number of images.
Edit:
I hope im not going to make anybody cry or murder me... But I did it like this:
<key>Images</key>
<string>image.jpg,image2.jpg,image3.jpg</string>
NSArray *ar = [[dict objectForKey@"images"] componentsSeparatedByString:@","];
=D
Dont kill me.
First refactor the dictionary to a class and add archiving if necessary. In the long term a class will make the code simpler and less fragile.
If the images are really small saving them in a class may be OK but it is probably better to save them as files with the file names in the class. If there is a possible image name conflict create a UUID of the image name.
Also consider Core Data if the data and images need to persist.