UITableView’s Data Source
The process of providing a UITableView with rows in Cocoa Touch is different from the typical procedural programming task. In a procedural design, you tell the table view what it should display. In Cocoa Touch, the table view asks another object – its dataSource – what it should display. In our case, the ItemsViewController is the data source, so it needs a way to store item data.
In Chapter 2, you used an NSMutableArray to store BNRItem instances. You will do the same thing in this chapter, but with a little twist. The NSMutableArray that holds the BNRItem instances will be abstracted into another object – a BNRItemStore (Figure 9.6).
Figure 9.6 Homepwner object diagram
If an object wants to see all of the items, ...
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