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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

By : Jon Hoffman
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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading a file using MKNetworkKit


In the previous recipe, we saw how to upload a file using MKNetworkKit. In this recipe we will be downloading a file from the Internet. Since all of MKNetworkKit's functionality is encapsulated within the MKNetworkEngine and MKNetworkOperation classes, we need to create an engine first.

We will be using the downloadFileAtPath: method of the MKNetworkOperation class to download the file at the specified path. We will then add the addDownloadStream: callback to our MKNetworkOperation object. This callback will write the file to a stream.

While this recipe downloads an image, we can use the same methods to download any type of file.

Getting ready

This recipe is compatible with both iOS and OS X. We need to download the framework from https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKNetworkKit and add it to our project. We also need to add the following four frameworks:

  • ImageIO.framework

  • Security.framework

  • SystemConfiguration.framework

  • CFNetwork.framework

How to do it…

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