I've written two ways to async load pictures inside my UITableView cell. In both cases the image will load fine but when I'll scroll the table the images will change a few times until the scroll will end and the image will go back to the right image. I have no idea why this is happening.
#define kBgQueue dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0)
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
dispatch_async(kBgQueue, ^{
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString:
@"http://myurl.com/getMovies.php"]];
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(fetchedData:)
withObject:data waitUntilDone:YES];
});
}
-(void)fetchedData:(NSData *)data
{
NSError* error;
myJson = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:data
options:kNilOptions
error:&error];
[_myTableView reloadData];
}
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
// Return the number of sections.
return 1;
}
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section{
// Return the number of rows in the section.
// Usually the number of items in your array (the one that holds your list)
NSLog(@"myJson count: %d",[myJson count]);
return [myJson count];
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
myCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cell"];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[myCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"cell"];
}
dispatch_async(kBgQueue, ^{
NSData *imgData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://myurl.com/%@.jpg",[[myJson objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectForKey:@"movieId"]]]];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
cell.poster.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imgData];
});
});
return cell;
}
... ...
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
myCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cell"];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[myCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"cell"];
}
NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://myurl.com/%@.jpg",[[myJson objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectForKey:@"movieId"]]];
NSURLRequest* request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request
queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue]
completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse * response,
NSData * data,
NSError * error) {
if (!error){
cell.poster.image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
// do whatever you want with image
}
}];
return cell;
}
poster? That's presumably an imageview in his custom cell, so what EXEC_BAD_ACCESS is doing is perfectly right. You are correct that you should not use the cell as the repository for model data, but I don't think that's what he's doing. He's just giving the custom cell what it needs to present itself. Furthermore, and this is a more subtle issue, I would be wary about storing an image, itself, in your model array backing your tableview. It's better to use a image caching mechanism and your model object should retrieve from that cache. – ConstableView:cellForRowAtIndexPathget the current image from objectAtIndex of indexPath.row, if it's empty, make the request and download the picture into that place in the area. Next time the cell is visible the picture will load from the array. Something like that? Like @rob suggested AFNetworking gives me a full solution for downloading & cache related issues but your comments are still very interesting. – EdikSDWebImageorAFNetworking, which both cache). I was only objecting to the characterization that his approach was using the cell to "store" the image (because he's not; he actually has the opposite problem, that he wasn't storing the image anywhere and he is discarding it when the cell is reused). So, while I might quibble re semantics, I think we're agreed regarding the basic solution. – Cons