I have read Apple's MVC article and am confused about various things. Firstly Apple uses a combination of the View and the Controller in almost all its sample applications which is fine and I like it but they contradict themselves in this article because they said that View's should not rely on Controllers etc.
My main question is does anyone have a link to one of Apple's sample iOS projects which is a good example of the MVC pattern - with data retrieval etc because I don't fully understand the Model part of the pattern.
I don't understand the difference between a 'domain object' and a model object. For example if I wanted to retrieve a list of orders this would happen in a model class Orders. Would I then have another class Order which has properties such as OrderDate, OrderNumber etc or how would this work?
This sample code demonstrates a multi-stage approach to loading and displaying a UITableView. I think it's really interesting to dive in. It will show MVC in the works.
Here’s how the Model-View-Controller (also known as MVC) pattern maps to the main parts of your App:
Model → Data
View → User Interface
Controller → Core Logic
this explain fully with sample code
http://www.hollance.com/2011/04/making-your-classes-talk-to-each-other-part-1/
I believe that the following code will help you understand how to work with MVC in iOS application because its description says:
"MVCNetworking is a sample that shows how to create a network
application using the Model-View-Controller design pattern.
Specifically, it displays a photo gallery by getting the gallery's XML
description, thumbnails and photos from a web server, and uses Core
Data to cache this information locally."
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/MVCNetworking/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010443
This is by far the best, yet simple explanation I've come across(taken from RayWenderlich)
"The idea behind MVC is that
- VIEWS should only care about how they are presented HOW THEY ARE PRESENTED,
- MODELS should only care about their DATA,
- and CONTROLLERS should work to MARRY the two WITHOUT necessarily knowing too much about their internal structure."