Parsing JSON with NSDictionary

Question

I am working on an app which fetches data from a server. I convert this data to XML and then parse it using XMLDictionary. My problem is counting the number of objects inside the dictionary.

"finance_fee_collection" =     (

            {

        amount = "790.00";

        "due_date" = "2015-06-04";

        name = "Third Payment";

    },

            {

        amount = "790.00";

        "due_date" = "2014-12-11";

        name = "First Payment";

    },

            {

        amount = "740.00";

        "due_date" = "2015-07-06";

        name = "third payment";

    }

);

Counting the above number of objects yields 3, which is true. But counting the following also results 3.

    "finance_fee_collection" =     {

    amount = "740.00";

    "due_date" = "2015-07-06";

    name = "third payment";

};

What I want is to count the number of "finance_fee_collection" items, such that the first one results 3 and the second one results 1. Is there anyway I can approach this goal?

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Answer 1

The first one seems to be an array, the second a dictionary:

if([finance_fee_collection iskindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]){
    count = 1;
} else {
    count = result.count;
}

something similar to this should work. :) hope it is helpful.

Parsing JSON with NSDictionary

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