Product list with ids?

Question

How do you create a product list with id in a plist?

Answer 1

Hi--
You'd do it like you would any other information you'd put in a plist: create a list of key/value pairs:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<string>First Product Name</string>
<key>2</key>
<string>Seconds Product Name</string>
</dict>
</plist>
If you save that plist as a file named Products.plist and make sure it gets copied to your application bundle, you can get your values like this (not tested, but I think it should work):
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Products" ofType:@"plist"];
NSDictionary *products = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path];
// get product 1
NSString *productName = [products objectForKey:@"1"];
The last line might need to be (my only tested code with a plist is actually more complicated):
NSString *productName = [[products objectForKey:@"1"] stringValue];
That's a pretty simple example, but you can get fancier if you want with arrays and such. But I'd need more information on what you want to store in order to give better advice...
charlie