Does anybody know is there any good library for iPhone SDK to call REST web service. I want to have something simple like Heroku rest client
A:
Using REST based services really doesn't need a "good library."
NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest, included in the SDK, are all you really need.
August
2009-03-10 14:04:54
You can certainly achieve what you want using the basic libraries in the framework but that doesn't mean a simple, high-level APIs should be discounted.
Luke Redpath
2009-11-29 00:08:43
August, I completely disagree. There's a lot of code you have to write in between the NSURL stuff and the REST abstraction. (NSURLConnection doesn't even accumulate bytes in a buffer as they come in off the wire; so there's boilerplate code you have to write every time you use it, and that's just for starters.)
jasoncrawford
2010-02-05 03:54:51
+5
A:
Hope Andrian Kosmaczewski's work can save your time from reinventing the wheels:
http://github.com/akosma/iphonerestwrapper/tree/master
And, it's Public Domain.
digdog
2009-03-10 14:56:22
+3
A:
In case your REST service is implemented in Ruby on Rails, the open source ObjectiveResource project is looking very promising. It has been working great for me in a relatively complex project of mine, and I've even contributed some code back to them.
Adam Alexander
2009-03-11 06:47:57
The problem with ObjectiveResource is the lack of asynchronous connection support, which basically means freezing your UI thread every time you call your REST service. Which is unacceptable IMHO. I would stay away from it.
Adrian Kosmaczewski
2010-01-04 08:40:13
Please note ObjectiveResource has lightweight asynchronous connection support in the 1.1 branch provided by the ConnectionManager class: http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/blob/1.1/Classes/lib/ConnectionManager.m
Adam Alexander
2010-01-04 18:33:57
+12
A:
I suggest using the excellent ASIHTTPRequest source from All-Seeing Interactive: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest. I'm doing this, and so are several released iPhone apps, so you can be sure the code is pretty solid.
This is a wrapper around the CFNetwork API that makes some of the more tedious aspects of communicating with web servers easier. It is written in Objective-C and works in both Mac OS X and iPhone applications.
It is suitable for performing basic HTTP requests and interacting with REST-based services (GET / POST / PUT / DELETE). The ASIFormDataRequest subclass makes it easy to submit POST data and files using multipart/form-data.
Jane Sales
2009-03-11 08:11:29
+2
A:
Thx everybody for help.
My server side is on Rails so looks like ObjectiveResource feet best of my needs.
Aler
2009-03-11 13:45:44
+1
A:
I created a blog article about doing this.
http://www.dreamfreeze.net/weblog/restful%5Fwebservices.html
Logan Cautrell
2009-10-07 03:14:00
A:
ASIHTTPRequest looks really promising to me as an NOOB iPhone developer but has anyone got an example project that uses it that I can look at? Something like the Andrian Kosmaczewski wrapper?
Lee Probert
2010-01-12 18:08:03
A:
[akosma / iphonerestwrappert] try this wrapper from github
Caged / httpriot this is a very Simple HTTP Rest Library for iPhone and Cocoa projects.
yasirmturk
2010-05-28 09:06:31