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Android Parse - table of pointers to other tables, want to retrieve objects in the other tables

I feel like I'm pretty close on this one, just need the last bit.
I have the following tables:
_User (standard Parse table)
Category (object Id, name)
Exercises (object Id, name, description, thumbnail, image, etc)
and UserFavourites which is where I store the user's preferred exercises
(objectId, user->users table, exercise->exercises table, category->category table)
I have writing to Parse using pointers just fine:
//create new parse object
ParseObject favouriteExercise = new ParseObject("UserFavourites");
//create pointers to the Exercise table and Category table
ParseObject exercise = ParseObject.createWithoutData("Exercises", mExerciseId);
ParseObject category = ParseObject.createWithoutData("Category", mCategoryId);
//put those pointers into the Userfavourites table and save
favouriteExercise.put("user",ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
favouriteExercise.put("exercise",exercise);
favouriteExercise.put("category",category);
//save
favouriteExercise.saveInBackground();
Now I'm trying to retrieve all the exercises a user has favourited and put them in to a listview by searching the table for any objects that match the user's pointer to the user's table:
ParseQuery<Exercises> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("UserFavourites");
final ParseObject user = ParseObject.createWithoutData(ParseUser.class, ParseUser.getCurrentUser().getObjectId());
query.whereEqualTo("user", user);
//call to parse.com to start the query
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<Exercises>() {
#Override
public void done(List<Exercises> exercises, ParseException e) {
if (exercises != null) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Favourites found, can't list yet", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
mAdapter.clear();
//add all the exercises to the list
mAdapter.addAll(exercises);
//sort the list alphabetically
mAdapter.sort(new Comparator<Exercises>() {
#Override
public int compare(Exercises exercises, Exercises t1) {
return exercises.getName().compareTo(t1.getName());
}
});
} else {
mNoFavourites.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
Where I'm stuck is when I run this I can see my query is working -> I am retrieving the 4 rows in UserFavourites that I favourited out of the table of 8, so it is filtering correctly, but the objects I'm getting aren't pointing to the exercises I want. They are just empty pointers.
Thanks.

Yes it will return only reference (Pointer). If you want actual object data call fetchInBackground
myObject.fetchInBackground(new GetCallback<ParseObject>() {
public void done(ParseObject object, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
// Success!
} else {
// Failure!
}
}
});

I figured it out based on the logic kishore jethava gave.
I queried the favorites table, then with the results I wanted (which pointed to another table) I cycled through each result and got the object it pointed to and added it to my ArrayList.
public void getFavourites() {
//set progress bar
setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);
ParseQuery<Exercises> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("UserFavourites");
final ParseObject user = ParseObject.createWithoutData(ParseUser.class, ParseUser.getCurrentUser().getObjectId());
query.whereEqualTo("user", user);
query.include("exercise");
//call to parse.com to start the query
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<Exercises>() {
#Override
public void done(List<Exercises> objects, ParseException e) {
if (objects.size() != 0) {
for(ParseObject object : objects)
{
//for each pointer found, retrieve the object it points to
obj = object.getParseObject("exercise");
mAdapter.add((Exercises) obj);
}
});
}
} else {
mNoFavourites.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
//stop progress bar
setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);
}
});
}

Add data to parse table doesnt work (android)

Hi im trying to add data to specific object in some table in parse.com this is the code :
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("Buildings");
query.whereEqualTo("objectId", building);
query.getFirstInBackground(new GetCallback<ParseObject>() {
#Override
public void done(ParseObject object, ParseException e) {
if(object == null) {
Log.e("object","not found");
}
else {
Log.e("object","found "+ object.getObjectId().toString());
object.put("test", "test");
object.saveInBackground();
}
}
});
i debug the code and it was fine and he really find the object and it really add a column to the table with the name test but i dont see any value inside i just see all the time (undefined)

Retrieve data from the class table using parse.com

I want to retrieve value from the class of the object.
example: I have one class Player_info.
In this class there is different field like Player name,Score,birthdate.
1.messi,50,7/12/1991.
2.ronaldo,45,7/7/1993.
3.rooney,40,7/12/1991.
now i want to retrieve data ronaldo score which is from this class using parse i was stuck over here from 2 day. plz guys help me out. It was very appreciable.

You need to do like this :
String ObjectId;
ParseQuery<ParseObject> playerQuery = ParseQuery.getQuery("Player_info");
playerQuery.whereEqualTo("Player Name", "ronaldo");
playerQuery.setLimit(1);
playerQuery.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>() {
public void done(List<ParseObject> playerList, ParseException e) {
if (playerList != null && playerList.size() > 0) {
int score = playerList.get(0).getInt("Score");
objectId = playerList.get(0).getObjectid();
}
}
}
Now you can use score of ronaldo wherever you want :) .
To update the value in table you can do that:
// Create a pointer to an object of class Point with id dlkj83d
ParseObject point = ParseObject.createWithoutData("Player_Info", objectId);
// Set a new value on quantity
point.put("Score", newScore);
// Save
point.saveInBackground(new SaveCallback() {
public void done(ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
// Saved successfully.
} else {
// The save failed.
}
}
});

A different way to retrieve an Object in Parse with Android Studios

Currently I am making an Android application with Android Studios and I am using Parse to handle the data. I want to be able send (put) data such as town names and info about that town (town_names would be a column and info would be another, there for each town_names would have its own info). I can do that with ease and it uploads to the Parse database. However, the part I can not seem to figure out is how to retrieve the data points I desire. I have code to retrieve data based off of an objectId shown below however that is not exactly what I want.
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("userMessage");
query.getInBackground("KgsLojXPcq", new GetCallback<ParseObject>() {
public void done(ParseObject object, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
retrievedText = object.getString("info");
} else {
retrievedText = "No information.";
}
}
});
"userMessage" is the ParseObject I have created and "info" is the column I want to get text from. Instead of searching for an objectId ("KgsLojXPcq") is there a way to search for town_names? So then I could for example search the database for "New York" and "retrievedText" would be set to the info for New York.

ParseQuery
.getQuery("userMessage")
.whereEqualTo("town_names", "New York")
.getFirstInBackground(new GetCallback<ParseObject>() {
#Override
public void done(ParseObject object, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
retrievedText = object.getString("info");
} else {
retrievedText = "No information.";
}
}
});

How to update in parse database custom table using android

I know about how to insert in custom table in parse.com database but i don't know about it how to update. i confuse in the how to get all object value from the table. so you have any idea about it.
Thanks in Advances.

You could try to retrieve the object you want to update and then save it edited like this:
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("User");
query.whereEqualTo("firstName", "Dan");
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>() {
public void done(List<ParseObject> list, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
ParseObject person = list.get(0);
person.put("firstName", "Johan");
person.saveInBackground();
} else {
Log.d("score", "Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
});
For more examples you could read the chapter for updating objects in Parse.com documentation here https://www.parse.com/docs/android/guide#objects-updating-objects