To efficiently extract all Post Titles from a JSON API, I am utilizing another JSON API of users to further retrieve the count of comments for each Post. Here are the APIs being used:
- API for USERS: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users
- API for POSTS: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
- API for COMMENTS: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/comments
The Users API provides a unique ID, while the Posts API includes UserID, and the Comments API contains PostID.
After extracting data from all 3 APIs into separate arrays, the next step is to create two functions:
- getPostsTitleForSelectedUser()
- getNumberOfCommentsForEachPost()
A snippet of the code implementation is shown below:
class UserDetailsController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var detailsTableView: UITableView!
var usersArray = [User]()
var postsArray = [Post]()
var commentsArray = [Comment]()
func getPostsTitleForSelectedUser() -> String{
let postTitle: String? = "POST TITLE FOR TEST"
return postTitle!
}
func getNumberOfCommentsForEachPost() -> String{
let comments = "4131231231"
return comments
}
}