Extract dependentLocality from CLPlacemark item

Question

I am trying to extract the dependentLocality information that is returned in a CLPlacemark object. The data (anonymized) looks like

{
            "cache_control" = CACHEABLE;
            "start_index" = 0;
            status = "STATUS_SUCCESS";
            ttl = 15768000;
            type = "COMPONENT_TYPE_ADDRESS";
            value =                 (
                                    {
                    address =                         {
                        "known_accuracy" = POINT;
                        "localized_address" =                             (
                                                            {
                                address =                                     {
                                    formattedAddressLine =                                         (
                                        "111 Some St",
                                        "Brooklyn, NY  11111-1111",
                                        "United States"
                                    );
                                    structuredAddress =                                         {
                                        administrativeArea = "New York";
                                        administrativeAreaCode = NY;
                                        areaOfInterest =                                             (
                                            "Long Island"
                                        );
                                        country = "United States";
                                        countryCode = US;
                                        dependentLocality =                                             (
                                            "Bedford Stuyvesant",
                                            Brooklyn
                                        );
                                        fullThoroughfare = "111 Some St";
                                        geoId =                                             (
                                        );
                                        locality = "New York";
                                        postCode = 11206;
                                        postCodeExtension = 1111;
                                        postCodeFull = "11111-1111";
                                        subAdministrativeArea = Kings;
                                        subLocality = Brooklyn;
                                        subThoroughfare = 111;
                                        thoroughfare = "Some St";
                                    };
                                };
                                locale = "en_US";
                            }
                        );
                    };
                }
            );
            "values_available" = 1;
            version = 7;
            "version_domain" =                 (
                apple,
                revgeo,
                US
            );
        },

I can't access the contents (other than through Apple's structuredAddress property, which doesn't contain what I want). I want to extract "Bedford Stuyvesant", Brooklyn" from what's above, for instance. Have tried numerous ways around this, but eg. casting the placemark to an NSDictionary fails. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Maybe you can do some string processing to extract dependentLocality from your placemark.description. But why don't you just use placemark.subLocality property?

NSString *geoMapItem = placemark.description;
NSRange start = [geoMapItem rangeOfString:@"dependentLocality"];
NSRange end = [geoMapItem rangeOfString:@")" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:NSMakeRange(start.location, 1000)];
NSString *dataString = [geoMapItem substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(start.location, end.location - start.location + end.length)];
dataString = [dataString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@""];
dataString = [dataString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"  " withString:@""];
dataString = [dataString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\"" withString:@""];

start = [dataString rangeOfString:@"("];
end = [dataString rangeOfString:@")"];
NSString *arrayString = [dataString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(start.location + 1, end.location - start.location - 1)];

NSArray *array = [arrayString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];