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iOS Build a Vending Machine App in Swift Loading Data From a Resource Property Lists and XML

Posted by kelake
kelake
4,223 Points

Hard coding the data within a class

Is this video Pasan has said that it is not wise to tie your data to your model - to not hard code your data within a class. But isn't that exactly what we are doing? The Vending Selection is contained within the Enum and within an array in the class FoodVendingMachine. What am I missing?

1 Answer

Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
13,092 Points
Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
13,092 Points

I think that was just the current state of the app you were working with. Later on he will explain the proper method and how to avoid hardcoding the data, but also, the think that confuses you a bit is that because this is just a practice example, you have to hardcode some stuff in just so you would see if it works.

Real life examples work a bit differently, but in tutorials we don't have access to some external database we can use, so we need to hardcode some stuff in :)

Next few tutorials will make it much clearer!

Hope i helped a bit. Don't forget to rate the anwer that helped you the most.

kelake
kelake
4,223 Points

Thank you Emin