SwiftUI ListView is not accessing the ForEach loop

Question

I'm doing a project with Swift using SwiftUI(which I'm kind of new) and Firebase.

I want to display information on a List View from the data I retrieved from Firebase and stored in an array of dictionaries and that works fine because I can display the information I want to see in the List cells in the console but Swift is not accessing the ForEach loop where I am reading the data of the array.

What I have tried:

Add id: \.self to the ForEach loop.
Made the CourseInfo struct to conform to the Hashable protocol.

Then I realized that it is actually not entering the ForEach loop.

I'll leave my code down below.

Thanks.

Course.swift

import Foundation
import FirebaseAuth
import FirebaseFirestore

struct CourseInfo:Identifiable {
    let id = UUID()
    let courseName: String
    let totalStudents: Int
    let courseID: String
}

class Course: ObservableObject {
    let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
    let db = Firestore.firestore()
  
    @Published var courses = [CourseInfo]()
    
    func retreiveData() {
        // Check if the user is signed in.
        if user != nil {
            // if user is signed in --> retreive all of the user's courses and info.
            db.collection("courses").getDocuments() { [self] (querySnapshot, error) in
                // Check for errors.
                if let error = error {
                    print(error.localizedDescription)
                }
                else { // if there are not errors.
                    for course in querySnapshot!.documents {
                        let courseInfo = course.data()
                        manageData(courseInfo)
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }// end retreiveData()
    
    private func manageData(_ courseInfo: [String : Any]) {
        var courseName: String = ""
        var students: [Any] = []
        var courseID: String = ""
        
        for (key, value) in courseInfo {
            if key == "Teacher" && value as! String == user!.uid {
                for (key, value) in courseInfo {
                    if key == "Course Name" {
                        courseName = value as! String
                    }
                    else if key == "Course ID" {
                        courseID = value as! String
                    }
                    else if key == "Students"{
                        students = value as! Array<Any>
                    }
                }
                self.courses.append(CourseInfo(courseName: courseName, totalStudents: students.count, courseID: courseID))
            }
        }
        
    } // end manageData()
}

CourseListView.swift

import SwiftUI

struct CourseListView: View {
    var thaCourse:[CourseInfo] = Course().courses
    
    var body: some View {
        List {
            ForEach(thaCourse) { course in
                CourseCell(course: course)
            }
        }
    }
}

struct CourseCell: View {
    var course: CourseInfo
    
    var body: some View {
        VStack(alignment:.leading, spacing: 3) {
            
            Text(course.courseName)
                .font(.title2)
                .fontWeight(.semibold)
                .lineLimit(2)
                .minimumScaleFactor(0.5)
            
            Text("Total de alumnos: \(course.totalStudents)")
            
            Text("ID: \(course.courseID)")
        }
    }
}

Joakim Danielson · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-13 21:12:57Z

-1

You need to declare your Course class as a @StateObject (or @ObservedObject) property in your view and then access the array via that property. You also need to fetch your data, here I do it when the view appears using onAppear

@StateObject var course: Course = Course()

var body: some View {
    List {
        ForEach(course.courses) { course in
            CourseCell(course: course)
        }
    }
    .onAppear {
        course.retreiveData()
    }
}

answered Jul 13, 2021 at 21:12

Joakim Danielson

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