Adding items from an NSDictionary to an NSMutableArray
I'm trying to make an implementation of a k-means clustering algorithm for map annotations using the iPhone MapKit. I've got 2 classes which implement MKAnnotation: PostLocationAnnotation for individual points and LocationGroupAnnotation for clusters of points. The header for LocationGroupAnnotation is as follows:
@interface LocationGroupAnnotation : NSObject <MKAnnotation>
{
NSMutableArray *_locations;
CLLocationCoordinate2D _coordinate;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray *locations;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate;
+ (LocationGroupAnnotation *)initWithLocations:(NSArray *)locationArray;
+ (LocationGroupAnnotation *)initWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate;
- (id)initWithLocations:(NSArray *)locationArray;
- (id)initWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)startCoordinate;
- (void)addAnnotation:(PostLocationAnnotation *)annotation;
- (NSUInteger)locationCount;
@end
In my map view controller, I have a method to add all of the PostLocationAnnotations to LocationGroupAnnotations by creating k LocationGroupAnnotations (using the initWithCoordinate method) each with a location selected at random from the annotations, and adding PostLocationAnnotations to their nearest LocationGroupAnnotations. For this, I use an NSMutableArray of NSMutableDictionary obje开发者_开发知识库cts, like so ('means' is an NSMutableArray of LocationGroupAnnotations which has been populated before this):
// find nearest cluster to each point
NSMutableArray *distances = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:[[ffMapView annotations] count]];
for (id <MKAnnotation> point in [ffMapView annotations])
{
if ([point isKindOfClass:[PostLocationAnnotation class]])
{
NSMutableDictionary *distanceDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithCapacity:2];
[distanceDict setObject:point forKey:@"location"];
double minDistance = 0;
LocationGroupAnnotation *closestMean = nil;
for (id <MKAnnotation> meanPoint in means)
{
if ([meanPoint isKindOfClass:[LocationGroupAnnotation class]])
{
if (closestMean)
{
if ([ClusteringTools getDistanceBetweenPoint:[point coordinate] and:[meanPoint coordinate]] < minDistance)
{
closestMean = meanPoint;
minDistance = [ClusteringTools getDistanceBetweenPoint:[point coordinate] and:[meanPoint coordinate]];
}
} else {
closestMean = meanPoint;
minDistance = [ClusteringTools getDistanceBetweenPoint:[point coordinate] and:[meanPoint coordinate]];
}
}
}
[distanceDict setObject:closestMean forKey:@"closestMean"];
[distances addObject:distanceDict];
[distanceDict release];
}
}
// add annotations to clusters
for (NSDictionary *entry in distances)
{
[(LocationGroupAnnotation *)[entry objectForKey:@"closestMean"] addAnnotation:[entry objectForKey:@"location"]];
}
The problem I am having is when I output the locationCount of each LocationGroupAnnotation after this, I get 0 for each one. I have a log output for each time an annotation is added, like so (in LocationGroupAnnotation):
- (void)addAnnotation:(PostLocationAnnotation *)annotation
{
[_locations addObject:annotation];
NSLog(@"Added annotation at (%f,%f) to cluster %@",
[annotation coordinate].latitude,
[annotation coordinate].longitude,
[self description]);
}
...and it looks like everything is being added where it should, judging by the memory addresses. So what's going on?
Do you initialize _locations
anywhere? It looks like you could be merrily adding objects to nil
which would not cause any errors.
You haven't shown the code but you also have a property locations
which is an NSArray
and an instance variable _locations
which is an NSMutableArray
, are you doing anything clever with this in the background which could be messing things up? How are you linking those two properties together?
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