how to use sendAsynchronousRequest:queue:completionHandler:

Question

Two part question

Part one: I am trying to create an ASynchronous request to my database. I am currently doing it Synchronously however I want to le

Answer 1

Here is a sample:

NSString *urlAsString = @"http://www.cnn.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAsString];
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];


[NSURLConnection
         sendAsynchronousRequest:urlRequest
         queue:[[NSOperationQueue alloc] init]
         completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response,
                             NSData *data,
                             NSError *error) 
        {

         if ([data length] >0 && error == nil)
         {

                        // DO YOUR WORK HERE

         }
         else if ([data length] == 0 && error == nil)
         {
             NSLog(@"Nothing was downloaded.");
         }
         else if (error != nil){
             NSLog(@"Error = %@", error);
         }

     }];