I wanted to learn more about tableview and fetching data from rest api so I choose themoviedb to exercise with. For every movie, under its title, I want to represent movie genres.
Movie details - are on this link
As you can see, movie genres are represented with Int values for every genre.
Genre names for every Int(id) are on this link
I wanted to represent genres like for example "Horror, Thriller, Drama".
I made this function to get genres values in [Genre] array.
var genreList: [Genres] = []
func getGenres() {
MovieServiceAPI.shared.fetchGenres(from: .genre) { (result: Result<GenresResponse, MovieServiceAPI.APIServiceError>) in
switch result {
case .success(let genreResponse):
self.genreList = genreResponse.genres
case .failure(let error):
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
}
After that, I made function which as parameter gets Int array (which represents movie genre ids), and function add genre name for proper id into empty string.
func checkGroups(groups: [Int]) -> String{
var genres: String = ""
getGenres()
for genre in groups {
genreList.forEach({
if genre == $0.id {
genres.append($0.name)
genres.append(", ")
}
})
}
return genres
}
Function is called in configureCell function where values are set.
func configureCell(movieName: String, groupNames: [Int], imageUrl: String, date: String) {
movieTitleLabel.text = movieName
groupsLabel.text = checkGroups(groups: groupNames)
movieImageView.downloadImage(from: imageUrl)
dateLabel.text = String(date.prefix(4))
}
configureCell function is called in tableView cellForRowAt function
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
guard let cropCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "movieTableViewCell", for: indexPath) as? MovieTableViewCell else {
print("failed to dequeue the wanted cell")
return UITableViewCell()
}
let movie = movieList[indexPath.row]
cropCell.configureCell(movieName: movie.title, groupNames: movie.genreIds, imageUrl: movie.backdropPath, date: movie.releaseDate)
return cropCell
}
Problem is that im getting empty value for groupsLabel.text. Other label values are working fine, only groupsLabel is empty. Where am I getting wrong?
