NSURLConnection and grand central dispatch

Question

Is it advisable to wrap up NSUrlConnection in a gcd style blocks and run it on a low_priority queue?

I need to ensure that my connections are not happening on the ma

Answer 1

Have a look at this code block:

-(void)getDataFromServer
{
    NSDictionary *dicParams = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                           userId,    kUserID,
                           pageIndex,kPageIndex,
                           nil];

    NSString *yourURL = [self addQueryStringToUrlString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@",_PATH_,apiName] withDictionary:dicParams];


    NSString *queue_id = @"_queue_id_";
    dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create([queue_id UTF8String], 0);
    dispatch_queue_t main = dispatch_get_main_queue();

    dispatch_async(queue, ^{

        NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:yourURL] 
                                                    cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData 
                                                timeoutInterval:60.0];
        [theRequest setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
        [theRequest setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
        [theRequest setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

        NSError        *serviceError = nil;
        NSURLResponse  *serviceResponse = nil;
        NSData *dataResponse = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:theRequest 
                                                     returningResponse:&serviceResponse 
                                                                 error:&serviceError];

        if(serviceError)
        {
            dispatch_sync(main, ^{

                // Update your UI

                if(serviceError.code == -1012){
                    // Log error
                }else{
                    // Log error
                }
            });
        }

        else
        {
            NSError *jsonError = nil;

            id dataObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:dataResponse 
                                                            options:kNilOptions 
                                                              error:&jsonError];
            NSMutableArray *arrResponse = (NSMutableArray *)dataObject;

            dispatch_sync(main, ^{

                // Update your UI
                [yourTableView reloadData];
            });
        }
    });
}

+(NSString*)addQueryStringToUrlString:(NSString *)urlString withDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary
{
    NSMutableString *urlWithQuerystring = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:urlString];

    for (id key in dictionary) {
        NSString *keyString = [key description];
        NSString *valueString = [[dictionary objectForKey:key] description];

        if ([urlWithQuerystring rangeOfString:@"?"].location == NSNotFound) {
            [urlWithQuerystring appendFormat:@"?%@=%@", [self urlEscapeString:keyString], [self urlEscapeString:valueString]];
        } else {
            [urlWithQuerystring appendFormat:@"&%@=%@", [self urlEscapeString:keyString], [self urlEscapeString:valueString]];
        }
    }
    return urlWithQuerystring;
}

+(NSString*)urlEscapeString:(NSString *)unencodedString
{
    CFStringRef originalStringRef = (__bridge_retained CFStringRef)unencodedString;
    NSString *s = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(NULL,originalStringRef, NULL, NULL,kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
    CFRelease(originalStringRef);
    return s;
}