[OGo-Developer] stuffing an NSArray into a NSMutableDictionary

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

I did not got it working as I wanted to work. I faked the array creation so 
that at least an array containing one object as I want it to be, is created.

it is here in the last patch to this enhancement request:
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
in OGoAsteriskCommands.m in -getQueues:

- (NSArray *)getQueues {
  NSException *exc;
  if ((exc = [self sendCommand:@"QueueStatus"
		withParameters:nil
		expectResult:[[[self asteriskCommands] 
objectForKey:@"QueueStatus"] objectForKey:@"ExpectedResult"]])) {
    ASSIGN(self->lastException, exc);
    return nil;
  }
  else {
    /* need to sort the output in multiple */
    NSEnumerator *e;
    NSMutableDictionary *queuesdict;
    NSMutableArray *membersarray;
    id event;
    queuesdict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
    membersarray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    e = [self->multipleReturn objectEnumerator];
    while ((event = [e nextObject])) {
      if ([[event objectForKey:@"Event"] hasSuffix:@" QueueParams"]) {
	/* the queue description, their parameters */
	NSEnumerator *f;
	NSEnumerator *g;
	id line;
	id value;

	f = [event keyEnumerator];
	g = [event objectEnumerator];
	while ((line = [f nextObject]) && (value = [g nextObject])) {
		[queuesdict takeValue:value forKey:line];
	}
      } else {
	/* queue members */
        [membersarray addObject:event];
      }
    }
    [queuesdict takeValue:[membersarray copy] forKey:@"Agents"];
    NSMutableArray *tmparray;
    tmparray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    [tmparray addObject:queuesdict];
    [self->multipleReturn removeAllObjects];
    ASSIGN(self->multipleReturn, [tmparray copy]);;
  }
    return self->multipleReturn;
}


in the beginning of getQueues, the array self->multipleReturn is set via the 
[self sendCommand:@"QueueStatus" ...

As the slf->multipleReturn contains an unordered list of objects, mixed up 
information about queues and their agents, I want to make it more ordered so 
that it looks like this:

queues = (
 {
   queue = "queuename";
   servicelevel = "servicelevel";
   value = "key";
   Agents = (
     location = "101";
     blah = "plonk";
   );
 },
 {
  another queue...
 }

)

my initial plan was to enumerate over the self->multipleReturn array, stuff 
everything into a dictionary, and then put the dictionary into an array.
    NSMutableDictionary queuesdict;
    queuesdict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
    e = [self->multipleReturn objectEnumerator];
    while ((event = [e nextObject])) {
      if ([[event objectForKey:@"Event"] hasSuffix:@" QueueParams"]) {
	/* the queue description, their parameters */
        [queuesdict addObject:event forKey:[event objectForKey:@"Queue"]];
      } else {
	/* queue members */
        [[queuesdict objectForKey:[event objectForKey:@"Queue"] 
objectForKey:@"Agents"] addObject:event];
        [membersarray addObject:event];
      }
    }


but I am unable to get the Agents stuffed into the dictionary. I do not get 
error messages, nothing, it just does not add the Agents to the Dictionary.
It seems I do not yet understand completely how Mutable dictionaries or 
arrays are supposed to work.
Any more insights are highly appreciated.

kind regards
Sebastian