======================= Cocoa Tree View Example

Author: Stefan Eletzhofer

Date: 2011-06-30

Version: 0.3.1

Abstract

For a project I'm currently at, I have the requirement to view heirachical data in one UITableView.

This is what I've come up with, it's a proof-of-concept and badly needs refactoring.

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License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

Features

• collapsable/expandable UITableViewCells
• NSMutableDictionary as data model
• no hacks

Data Model

All the specific tree/list handling stuff is done in TreeListModel. This class offers accessor methods which make it fairly simple to use it as a UITableViewDataSource.

Demo data is load from a JSON file which looks like this. You get the idea ;)

    {
        "key": "root", 
        "isOpen": true, 
        "value": [
            {
                "isOpen": true, 
                "key": "Chapter 1", 
                "value": [
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 1.1", 
                        "value": []
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": true, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 1.2", 
                        "value": [
                            {
                                "isOpen": false, 
                                "key": "Sub Sub Chapter 1.2.1", 
                                "value": []
                            }, 
                            {
                                "isOpen": false, 
                                "key": "Sub Sub Chapter 1.2.2", 
                                "value": []
                            }, 
                            {
                                "isOpen": false, 
                                "key": "Sub Sub Chapter 1.2.3", 
                                "value": []
                            }
                        ]
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 1.3", 
                        "value": []
                    }
                ]
            }, 
            {
                "isOpen": false, 
                "key": "Chapter 2", 
                "value": [
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 2.1", 
                        "value": []
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 2.2", 
                        "value": []
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 2.3", 
                        "value": []
                    }
                ]
            }, 
            {
                "isOpen": true, 
                "key": "Chapter 3", 
                "value": [
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 3.1", 
                        "value": []
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 3.2", 
                        "value": []
                    }, 
                    {
                        "isOpen": false, 
                        "key": "Subchapter 3.3", 
                        "value": []
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }

Changelog

0.3.1 - 2011-06-30

• update license

0.3 - 2011-05-10

• added some custom UITableViewCells which fancy lines and stuff.
• upgrade JSON data model to multivalued data.
• made a universal app.
• use KVC to access model items. Remove NSMutableDictionary dependency.

0.2 - 2011-05-09

• refactored, created TreeListModel.

0.1 - 2011-05-06

• Initial release to github