Request with NSURLRequest

Question

I'm trying do to an app which uses a database (actually in my localhost), I tried with ASIHTTPRequest but having so much troubles with iOS 5 (I learnt how to use ASIHTTPRequest form there : http://www.raywenderlich.com/2965/how-to-write-an-ios-app-that-uses-a-web-service

Now i'm trying with the API provided by Apple : NSURLRequest / NSURLConnection etc,...

I read the Apple online guide and make this first code :

- (void)viewDidLoad
{

    [super viewDidLoad];

     // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.



    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL

                                URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8888/testNSURL/index.php"]

                                cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy

                                timeoutInterval:60.0];



    [request setValue:@"Hello world !" forKey:@"myVariable"];



    NSURLConnection *theConnection=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];

    if (theConnection) {

        receiveData = [NSMutableData data];   

    }

}

I added the delegates needed by the API

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection

Here is my php code :

<?php
if(isset($_REQUEST["myVariable"])) {
    echo $_REQUEST["myVariable"];
}
else    echo '$_REQUEST["myVariable"] not found';
?>

So what is wrong? When I start the app, it will immediately crash with this output :

**

**> 2012-04-09 22:52:16.630 NSURLconnextion[819:f803] *** Terminating app
> due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason:
> '[<NSURLRequest 0x6b32bd0> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is
> not key value coding-compliant for the key myVariable.'
> *** First throw call stack: (0x13c8022 0x1559cd6 0x13c7ee1 0x9c0022 0x931f6b 0x931edb 0x2d20 0xd9a1e 0x38401 0x38670 0x38836 0x3f72a
> 0x10596 0x11274 0x20183 0x20c38 0x14634 0x12b2ef5 0x139c195 0x1300ff2
> 0x12ff8da 0x12fed84 0x12fec9b 0x10c65 0x12626 0x29dd 0x2945) terminate
> called throwing an exception**

**

I guess, it means that somethings is wrong with this line :

[request setValue:@"Hello world !" forKey:@"myVariable"];

It actually works if I comment this line.

My question is : How can I send datas to a PHP API, using NSURLRequest and NSURLConnexion?

Thank you for helping.

P.S. By the way, I have poor knowledges about server, PHP ect,...

Answer 1

try this:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL

                            URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8888/testNSURL/index.php"]

                            cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy

                            timeoutInterval:60.0];

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
NSString *postString = @"myVariable=Hello world !";
[request setHTTPBody:[postString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

NSURLConnection *theConnection=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];

if (theConnection) {

    receiveData = [NSMutableData data];   

}

seen here https://stackoverflow.com/a/6149088/1317080

Answer 2

Try the below code it is one of the simple ways to consume a web service(json)

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"yourURL"];

NSMutableURLRequest *urlReq=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

NSURLResponse *response;

NSError *error = nil;

 NSData *receivedData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:urlReq
                                              returningResponse:&response
                                                         error:&error];
if(error!=nil)
{
   NSLog(@"web service error:%@",error);
}
else
{
 if(receivedData !=nil)
 {
    NSError *Jerror = nil;

    NSDictionary* json =[NSJSONSerialization
                         JSONObjectWithData:receivedData
                         options:kNilOptions
                         error:&Jerror];

   if(Jerror!=nil)
   {
    NSLog(@"json error:%@",Jerror);
   }
 }
}

Hope this helps.