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RestKit for iOS

By : Taras Kalapun
Book Image

RestKit for iOS

By: Taras Kalapun

Overview of this book

<p>RestKit is an iOS framework for streamlining communication with web services, and it relies on the AFNetworking library that is used by thousands of app developers. It has an interface that is elegant and well designed, and it provides a powerful object-mapping engine that integrates well with the CoreData database. RestKit for iOS will teach you everything from loading a simple list of objects to creating a fully-featured app.<br /><br />RestKit for iOS delivers constructive tools and insights into app development that will benefit any app developer. The book starts with a simple example and then moves on to more complex ones as your knowledge increases. By the end of the guide, you will be able to build a fully-featured app that uses RESTful web services and performs CRUD object manipulation.<br /><br />RestKit for iOS will provide you with all the information you need to boost the development process of both simple and complex apps. Once you have executed a simple example and reviewed the basic theory, you will move on to more advanced concepts with descriptions of real-life scenarios and how to overcome bottlenecks. RestKit for iOS is full of real-life examples that show you how to simplify data loading, basic and advanced object mapping, metadata mapping, and routing. This book also teaches you about routing, RESTful object manipulation and synchronization, integration with the user interface, and caching</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Setting up a database


Let's create entities as shown in the following image:

Core Data scheme

The attributes for each entity are shown in the following table.

Database

The following table holds information on databases that are associated without a MongoHQ account. The main properties are the names of the database and its plan.

Attribute

Type

Notes

databaseID

String

It is a transient property; in code we link it to a name

hostname

String

name

String

It is an actual ID of a database

plan

String

port

Integer

Collection

Unlike SQL databases, document-based databases have collections. This table represents collections that are associated with specific databases. The attributes for collection are shown in the following table:

Attribute

Type

Notes

databaseID

String

It is the ID of a database for connecting relationships

collectionID

String

It is a transient property; in code we link it to name

name

String

It is an actual ID of a collection...