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By: Accessing The Cloud at Under The Bridge

Accessing The Cloud at Under The Bridge — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:08:26 +0000

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By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:09:30 +0000

@mcclayac

In Objective-C we often deserialize XML data into arrays of dictionaries or dictionaries of dictionaries and access what we need by key path instead of creating object hierarchies. There probably are tools to do what you are looking for, but I've never used them or had the need to. Depending on what you are doing you may also want to look into use Core Data. I'm really not sure other than that. What have web searches turned up?

-Matt

By: mcclayac

mcclayac — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:01:21 +0000

Thank you for this great article. I am a Sun Cert. Java Architect making the venture int IPhone/Andriod Development. Is there a Object Relational Framework for Objective-C for mapping of XML into Objective-C Classes? Something like an JaxB, or XML Objects for this platform (XML-Schema/WSDL Marshalling/unmarshalling frameworks)? Or and SDO (Service Data Objects) implementation?

By: vincecity3000

vincecity3000 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:53:20 +0000

Thx for this usefull tutorial. I suggest CakePHP as good framework for the serverside app. It’s based on php, use MVC pattern and do all the hard work of dealing with the database. http://cakephp.org/

By: lord anubis

lord anubis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:02:54 +0000

Hi, Thank you for your blog about this.

I have a question, is it possible to provide more information about your S3 XML doc suggestion. I am a little confused with the direction how to implement this.

What about the inside of the xml, shared docs and security?

Maybe worth a blog posting :-) Thanks

By: Jose Lobato

Jose Lobato — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:36:18 +0000

Hi Thanks Matt,

I'm doing this right now but in my case I'm using Ruby on Rails for the REST service. Up to now is going quite well. They are other libraries like httpriot that I have head about but as well as you I simply prefer NSURLConnection.

By: Perform Basic Web Tasks And Interact With RESTful Services | iPhone Development Tutorials and Programming Tips

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:59:30 +0000

[...] The tutorial is from Core Animation book co-writer Matt Long, and can be found here: Accessing The Cloud From Cocoa Touch [...]

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:59:25 +0000

@Ryan. No, that's helpful. As I said, I know PHP somewhat. I appreciate the feedback. I'll explore php://input a little closer. This is the first I've heard of it. ;-)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:54:13 +0000

Sort of a side note since this is primarily about the Cocoa Touch, but it is better to use php://input to read the raw post data. $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is not always set.

$rawPostData = file_get_contents(“php://input”);

http://php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php

By: heckj

heckj — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:06:50 +0000

If you’re more familiar with python, an excellent framework for doing REST is Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/) with Piston (http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home).

It’s far more complex than your excellent PHP examples above, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

By: Bienvenida y cómo conectar a Internet desde tu aplicación de iPhone

Bienvenida y cómo conectar a Internet desde tu aplicación de iPhone — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:41:18 +0000

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