I'm currently working on a PFQueryTableView and trying to get it to populate with data from an array that's pulled from ViewDidLoad. UPDATE: I've moved the function to an NSObject and implemented a singleton to be used across multiple classes in an effort to silo the operation away from the view controller. Below is the updated code:

+ (NSArray *)savedTankArray { PFUser *userName = [PFUser currentUser]; NSString *userNameString = [userName objectForKey:@"username"]; PFQuery *query = [[PFQuery alloc] initWithClassName:@"SavedTanks"]; [query whereKey:@"userName" equalTo:userNameString]; [query setValue:@"SavedTanks" forKeyPath:@"parseClassName"]; [query findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSArray *objects, NSError *error) { if (!error) { // The find succeeded. NSLog(@"Successfully retrieved %lu Tanks.", objects.count); // Do something with the found objects for (PFObject *object in objects) { NSString *tankNameString = [[NSString alloc] init]; NSString *tankCapacityString = [[NSString alloc] init]; tankNameString = [object valueForKey:@"tankName"]; tankCapacityString = [object valueForKey:@"tankCapacity"]; NSLog(@"%@", tankNameString); NSLog(@"%@", tankCapacityString); _savedTankArray = [objects objectAtIndex:0]; } } else { // Log details of the failure NSLog(@"Error: %@ %@", error, [error userInfo]); } }]; NSLog(@"TANK NAME ARRAY: %@", _savedTankArray); return [_savedTankArray savedTankObjects];

}

While the NSLogs inside of the function work just fine, my problem is a bit expanded now, and I feel as though I'm missing something really simple here.

By the time I get to @"TANK NAME ARRAY: %@"... obviously it's returning null because its outside of the portion that handles the query. This doesn't help me much if I'm trying to bring the data in through another class.

I've tried so much over the past few days and I can't imagine I'm missing something terribly complex. I'm sorry for re-opening this but I can't wrap my head around it at this time.

Any ideas on how I could handle this? I appreciate the help as always.