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RestKit for iOS

By : Taras Kalapun
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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)

Logging


Sometimes we might come across a situation where we don't understand how the request was made, or why the mapping failed, or if RestKit inserted that data in the Core Data or not. For such purposes, RestKit has powerful logging abilities, which are based on the LibComponentLogging framework. It supports six levels of logging (Off, Critical, Error, Warning, Info, Debug, Trace), which can be configured for every RestKit's component individually. You can turn these levels for such components as shown in the following table:

Component

Note

App

Logging for usage in your app

RestKit

All the RestKit components

RestKit/Core Data

Core Data logging

RestKit/Core Data/Cache

Logging of cache usage in Core Data component

RestKit/Network

Network logging of requests/responses

RestKit/Network/Core Data

Logging when Core Data is involved in network requests

RestKit/ObjectMapping

Logging of mapping operations

RestKit/Search

Search component

RestKit/Support

Miscellaneous logging...